😱 What Authors and Reviewers Really Think About AI Writing Books @FineReads
😱 What Authors and Reviewers Really Think About AI Writing Books  @FineReads
Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
AI - one of the most controversial topics in the book world. But what do authors, readers, and book reviewers really think? I asked around and here are the results...

00:00 - Intro
00:58 - Piracy of books
02:24 - Writing vs Assisted by AI
03:28 - Results of my author survey
10:08 - Results of my readers/ reviewers survey
16:36 - Social media backlash
18:30 - Final thoughts

Sources
- So many of you… thanks for helping me out with my surveys!
- Bookbub survey: insights.bookbub.com/how-authors-are-thinking-about-ai-survey
- Words to write by podcast: wordstowritebypodcast.com
- Pirated books (there are many articles, but as an example)
- arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say
- vanityfair.com/news/story/meta-ai-lawsuit?srsltid=AfmBOoq7GLRG_lEuhPXJ9t6LWACtrP2WnG39fdkEH2VYdbHEZcK4HQNt
- BBC article: bbc.com/news/articles/c77vr00enzy
- Mark Lawrence AI test: mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2023/09/ai-writing-results.html
- Open AI accuracy: openai.com/index/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text

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