For Some Reason, Someone Who Generates AI Slop Books Has Unmasked Herself

Gizmodo – Someone who calls herself “Coral Hart” is telling the world all her tricks. “If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” That strange quote is from an extraordinary New York Times article about “Coral Hart,” the pseudonym of a Cape Town, South Africa-based writer granted anonymity by the Times to talk about her use of AI to mass produce “more than 200 romance novels,” which she then sells on Amazon without disclosing that they’re the products of AI models like Claude and Grok, and in so doing she has pulled in six-figures, she says, off of about 50,000 sales. The person known as Hart allowed what seems to be a real photograph of her, smiling face and all, to be used by the Times, apparently in service of a side hustle teaching people how to use AI to manufacture their own novels, courses she markets under the “Hart” name. …”