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2025 has been a wild year for AI. NaNoWriMo got canceled for embracing AI, KC Crowne and others got caught leaving AI prompts in books, and people are marrying their chatbots. That's not to say anything about the environmental harm being caused by the AI data centers. All that to say... do people actually care? Are people concerned with AI being used for everything and inserted into every product?

00:05 Lots of authors caught using AI in 2025
00:28 Doesn’t seem like it’s stopping people
00:59 Are more authors using it and does anyone care?
01:23 So much happening in the book community
01:45 Readers and authors are overwhelmed by the state of the book community
02:29 Update on KC Crowne: still getting read and getting high reviews
03:05 If a user doesn’t feel bothered by the last book using AI, why would they not read future books?
03:58 Really doesn’t seem like James Frey’s book, Next To Heaven, sold well
04:45 Is this not a mainstream publishing issue but more of a smaller author issue?
05:14 Rie Qudan and Sympathy Tower Tokyo used AI https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...
05:55 Is using AI to create an AI character just kind of lazy? Or is it just trying to desensitize us to AI?
08:19 The thought process around AI has changed as much as AI has. No one was getting married to ChatGPT earlier this year.
09:34 The concept of AI psychosis and how it impacts people psychologically
10:52 The woman who fell in love with her psychiatrist and used AI to recreate him, where he was in love with her
12:17 The update from GPT4 to GPT5 has completely ruined some AI authors’ projects
15:00 People are so dependent on AI that they can’t actually write without it
15:27 How do you actually convince people that AI dependency and AI psychosis are real and will impact them?
16:16 People using AI as therapy has led to tragic results
17:47 Talking about AI psychosis at least brings awareness to it and people can at least know it’s a thing
18:45 The AI bubble feels like it’s going to pop and people aren’t willing to accept that AI is not the end all answer.
19:38 Meta and other AI companies suddenly slowed their AI hiring and advancement
20:25 ChatGPT is suddenly pushing for more subscriptions. Possibly about to take everything from free to paid.
24:12 Incredibly easy for AI creators to slip their own beliefs into AI logic
26:00 People seem like they don’t care if a book was created with AI as long as it was engaging.
27:00 What do you have to lose as a consumer if you cut yourself off from AI?
29:35 People replacing reading fan fiction by having AI generate them stories
31:05 The people who care the most about AI usage are the people who have a stake in the industry.
31:35 Just because AI is going to be everywhere… why does that mean you have to bring it into your writing? Please tell us in the comments.
33:05 Is someone going to come after us for not using AI?
36:30 Equating electric cars to using AI
37:40 Do people actually believe that we’re close to solving the issues that AI has? Logic, environmental, etc.
39:40 Adopting AI through desperation and author inadequacy
40:50 People use AI because they think it’s convenient
42:40 Commenter who puts every single sentence they write through ChatGPT
44:12 Counterpoint: increase your sense of community with other authors
45:15 StoryForge built upon the idea of getting feedback and everything people are using AI for.
47:00 Retro is in so do we need to embrace new technology?


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