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(That is, there's two of us separately using this pen name and the other has a middle name with her books, not that we're intentionally collaborating!)

And honestly, you don't need to KNOW it's AI. If they write like a middle manager authentically and of their own hands and mind, that ain't someone you need to waste your time with either.

And also, not being able to accurately identify sufficiently good AI text doesn't preclude being able to identify woefully bad AI text.

in fairness, if I were ever to cold-email an author and was saying I'd loved their work, I'd want to include some kind of proof that I had, in fact, read their work. However I suspect I'd be able to do better than "an LLM read the title and maybe the goodreads summary" levels

Over the past six months my mom's gotten two pitches related to her decades-old academic book. One was real, the other was fake. We could tell the difference!

Normally I would never wish my own inbox upon another person but...

I occasionally get them for Connie Willis via the social media accounts I run for her. The most recent one was for a completely different author of a non-fiction science book. They claim they are a "Book Marketing, Author Visibility, and Discoverability Specialist.

Whereas im constantly trying to figure out if things are AI or not and I feel like im being gaslight by HAL 9000 constantly.....

There are books I love. Not only do I have opinions about them, I have strong and specific opinions about them. They will be annoying - but authentically humanly annoying.

...what the fuck is wrong with this motherfucker. Don't answer that, I already blocked his ass. Maybe he can't tell the difference, but YOU KNOW my track record with spotting fake people is long and storied and SPOTLESS. LOL