Comments on: If AI Loves Your Writing, Be Very VERY Worried

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:52:46 +0000

There is something deeply insulting about a toaster-brained algorithm loving your prose. If the machine thinks it is great, it probably means you used so many predictable tropes that it could map out your entire plot before chapter three. Have you ever caught yourself unconsciously writing exactly what the bot wants just to see the green checkmark?

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By: PATTI RAE

PATTI RAE — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:27:41 +0000

Hey Kristen,
Great to hear from you again. I had missed seeing your emails in my inbox.
So, I have to comment on this subject of: ‘If AI loves your writing, be very very worried.’ I found your post to be timely, because in just the last month I have received 3 separate emails from so-called marketers who claim to have spent time with, or came across, or reviewed, one of my four books that I have published in my fantasy series: Mark of the Faerie. The emails are so obviously AI generated it’s laughable, but you have to look past the flowery words of praise on how wonderful my book(s) have been written, all the reasons why I already have an audience for my genre, how the story hits in all the right places, as the email is just a regurgitation of the story’s plot points. He/she will help me find my audience with this easy and affordable 12-month marketing package. Yeah, right.
Okay, first of all, what does ‘spending time with’ mean? Did this person read the book, or just coffee have with it. Secondly, all three of these so-called marketers had a model-gorgeous head shot in their email profile, (I’m sorry, but no one is that beautiful) and their websites didn’t actually exist.
I have to admit, at first read, these emails do stroke an author’s ego, as the wording is programmed to make one swoon with joy and pride of our work. “Somebody actually gets me!” Oh, to the poor naive and desperate author. Beware! Be very aware.
Thanks again for sharing, and glad to see your back!

By: Kristen Lamb

Kristen Lamb — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:58:36 +0000

In reply to Mike Gutowski. Great to see you, too! We are certainly entering a Brave New World, but I think AI can turn us into cowards if we aren't careful. Sanitizes the life right out of our work. Happy to be back!

By: Mike Gutowski

Mike Gutowski — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:29:03 +0000

Once again your wisdom, which I greatly missed, has struck the mark of my writing journey. The AI gods seemed quite unnutral and unnatural. I defaulted to my human developed writing instincts often. Got bouncy out of X world numerous times, accused by the AI of writing like a bot. I appealed and won the appeal. Still working on “Thinker and More Unusual Tales”. It’s a slog, but still a refreshing swim exercise of the mind. All the best (not AI generated!) ?

By: Kristen Lamb

Kristen Lamb — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:18:06 +0000

In reply to RACHEL THOMPSON. Nothing wrong with that. Nice to see, you, too, Hon! And that is why I am not going to camp too much on AI like I didn't camp too much on social media. They are tools, we are the artisans. We'll talk about craft next go. Xoxoxoxoxo

By: RACHEL THOMPSON

RACHEL THOMPSON — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:56:40 +0000

Is is nice to see you. I guess I am a dinosaur. I don’t do social media and I refuse to use AI. I don’t even watch TV. I can write or do like Kurt Vonnegut said and “fart around.” If spell checker is AI, I lied a little. Going out and talking to people is my social media and it sells books. I learned to write the hard way and I am still learning as I write my tenth book. The old fashion way still works, go figure.

By: Kristen Lamb

Kristen Lamb — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:11:13 +0000

In reply to Maria DMarco. It is wonderful to be missed! I have wanted to talk about this issue but this took a bit more care than the years of yore jumping in on social media. I get what you are saying. It took me a while to peg the feeling I was getting with all the AI "optimization." It is the Stepford Wife of writing. More to come, God willing! Toss me any ideas in particular you'd like me to address.

By: Maria DMarco

Maria DMarco — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:36:40 +0000

Well, thank god! I’ve been wondering where you are — and here you’ve arrived just in the nick of time, for me, that is…

As a writer and freelance developmental editor, the latter role has been inundated over the past year with material to edit where the ‘author’ starts with: “I just used AI to polish and make sure the grammar was okay.” or “I wrote the whole manuscript but did use AI to just clean it up a bit.”

I don’t mind if someone avails themselves of the resources of AI in researching material or exploring alternative POVs in order to better their original material or consider how their story might be revealed if presented from a different POV. This is experimentation. This is a human mind learning and using a tool to do so — with reasonable parameters, of course.

What is straining my mind and making my tongue bleed are those writers who hand me essentially IAI re-masticated material, then demand it be ‘edited’. The material usually is so flat, so listless in tone, and so so boring that an edit would require endless line notes to address. I have reached a point where I must simply decline projects like these, as there is no reason to have a human edit mechanical text.

So glad you’ve surfaced — I need more AI back-up from someone with your deep experience so I can consider how to handle these apparently endless encounters with material manipulated by AI.

By: Kristen Lamb

Kristen Lamb — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:34:33 +0000

In reply to V.M.Sang. Well, we have to appreciate that the quality of the output is increasing logarithmically. Regardless of how many sentences it will ever understand, it just will never "understand." The only way this works long-term is if we manage to siphon the soul out of every person on this planet and, if that happens, books will be the least of our concerns.