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Nigerian novelist loses out on $2M deal due to suspicions over the use of AI...
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:00 pm
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:00 pm
Wild story. This manuscript was apparently a hit in literary circles and a publishing company bid $2 million for publication rights. Now they are pulling out of the deal because they suspect AI to have been involved in its creation.
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The novel is titled Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body, and reportedly involves one of those characters you call to clean up a murder scene. According to what we know now (this story was first reported by Jeff Sneider), Falade signed a deal worth $2 million or more with Minotaur after a 14-way auction. The book was set to debut in 2028.
Then Falade’s own agent, Marc Gerald of Europa Content, killed the deal.
“Jerry Falade produced an incredible manuscript that dazzled us and the top publishing professionals around the world,” wrote the agent in an email. “Unfortunately, we are no longer able to authenticate how the manuscript fully evolved from origin to completion.”
“During the submission process, we vetted the manuscript with Jerry for AI and felt trusting in his reassurance that it was written without utilising AI as a resource in the writing or editorial process,” the agent added. “We can no longer substantiate that, and we are withdrawing the book.”
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Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:01 pm to RollTide1987
If it's a great book, who cares if it is AI?
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:02 pm to RollTide1987
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Nigerian novelist
Wrote a book called The Prince
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:02 pm to RollTide1987
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Nigerian novelist loses out on $2M deal due to suspicions over the use of AI...
But, in a surprising twist, a Nigerian prince has come forward to pay him $15M if the novelist can find a way to get the $2M back and send it to him as the prince is in a tight spot right now...
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:04 pm to TheOcean
quote:I would not want to read an AI book...
If it's a great book, who cares if it is AI?
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:04 pm to RollTide1987
Not sure why the surge against AI creations all of a sudden.
I assume 75-80% of all digital creations are AI or AI influenced.
(That includes the content of this website)
I assume 75-80% of all digital creations are AI or AI influenced.
(That includes the content of this website)
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:05 pm to Chicken
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I would not want to read an AI book...
Good to know Larry Leo’s job is safe.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:07 pm to forkedintheroad
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(That includes the content of this website)
Motherfricker...Larry Leo can't tie his shoes on his own - you think he knows how to use AI????
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:07 pm to forkedintheroad
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Not sure why the surge against AI creations all of a sudden.
My sister (no pics) is a writer and she has told me multiple times about how the literary community absolutely despises the use of AI in writing. They claim it steals from other authors to invent "new" and "original" stories.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:12 pm to TheOcean
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If it's a great book, who cares if it is AI?
The people who were planning to copyright it and make money off of it.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:14 pm to RollTide1987
His Nigerian Prince uncle still owes me some money he was supposed to send
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:14 pm to RollTide1987
I use AI to help in my writing. There is still a lot of work to feed it the right prompts, it doesn’t just do all the work on its own.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:15 pm to RollTide1987
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They claim it steals from other authors to invent "new" and "original" stories.
That’s BS. They do it themselves. There are basically 25 stories or so. Just a bunch of fluff surrounds them.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:29 pm to RollTide1987
Serious question for those of you who object to AI art, be it books, music or visual:
Have you ever written a prompt to get something even moderately complex and useful out of an AI?
I write 2-3 page prompts to get complex financial models in Excel built, and then I still have to do a fair bit of manual work. Net, the process cuts my time to do them by 3-4 days and I can iterate faster. No one without my skills in finance could write that prompt properly or evaluate the output.
Now, imagine the prompt for an entire book, or composing a song. Probably at least 10's of pages. That is going to be a LOT of work and creativity to get the AI to translate a prompt into what you see in your mind's eye. It will still be far faster than writing a book with an editor for 99% of people, and the AI can ID and fix plot holes faster and more consistently, BUT you still have to tell it HOW you want the hole fixed, which character to do it with, etc.
No offense to Chicken and those of you of similar sentiments, but refusing to read or listen to AI entertainment now is the equivalent of refusing to read a book written on a word processor instead of a typewriter in 1988.
Have you ever written a prompt to get something even moderately complex and useful out of an AI?
I write 2-3 page prompts to get complex financial models in Excel built, and then I still have to do a fair bit of manual work. Net, the process cuts my time to do them by 3-4 days and I can iterate faster. No one without my skills in finance could write that prompt properly or evaluate the output.
Now, imagine the prompt for an entire book, or composing a song. Probably at least 10's of pages. That is going to be a LOT of work and creativity to get the AI to translate a prompt into what you see in your mind's eye. It will still be far faster than writing a book with an editor for 99% of people, and the AI can ID and fix plot holes faster and more consistently, BUT you still have to tell it HOW you want the hole fixed, which character to do it with, etc.
No offense to Chicken and those of you of similar sentiments, but refusing to read or listen to AI entertainment now is the equivalent of refusing to read a book written on a word processor instead of a typewriter in 1988.
This post was edited on 8/4/26 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:37 pm to TigerHornII
Yes that’s exactly what I was trying to get at with my post. I write market analysis pieces. If I give AI a prompt to write a 1000 word article about topic X, it will generate one that is about a 3/10 quality wise.
If I go section by section utilizing knowledge I already have and asking it to help rephrase things in a clearer way or asking it specific research questions I can confirm with other sources among other things, I can write a 9/10 article in half the time it would take without any AI assistance.
If I go section by section utilizing knowledge I already have and asking it to help rephrase things in a clearer way or asking it specific research questions I can confirm with other sources among other things, I can write a 9/10 article in half the time it would take without any AI assistance.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:51 pm to Rebel
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Good to know Larry Leo’s job is safe.
Larry Leo is just Chicken posting his spank bank
Posted on 8/4/26 at 10:32 pm to TigerHornII
I have no interest in reading a non-human literary creation, no matter how long the prompt took to write.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 10:33 pm to Crowknowsbest
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I have no interest in reading a non-human literary creation, no matter how long the prompt took to write.
If it's a good story, what does it matter?
Posted on 8/4/26 at 10:34 pm to RollTide1987
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If it's a good story, what does it matter?
I’d rather read a bad story written by a person.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 10:37 pm to RollTide1987
This is usaid being cut causing them to pull out
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