Being accused of using AI to write my books was definitely not in my 2026 bingo card. Let alone getting such a comment left on the story that I wrote years before AI was even a thing in the writing world.
Here's a little advice before you go around accusing real authors who spend their waking hours between life, work, study, kids, and everything else going on outside of writing to produce all the fictional works you are reading today for FREE (be it fanfiction or light novels): READ REAL BOOKS.
Where do you think AI learned to know what kind of writing style to use to "help" to finish a story? How do you think AI know how to use em dashes, Oxford commas, and other punctuation marks in writing?
They learned these things by STEALING FROM US.
They learned all of these from the lunatic who fed them tons and tons of fanfiction works ever released on the internet and published literature works, from classic novels to modern literature, so they could use the same writing style, the same em dashes, Oxford commas, and lots of other things you find in REAL BOOKS.
I've been writing for years, and while my writing skills have progressed throughout my writing journey, I still use the same writing style. I've used em dashes and these other punctuation marks since the first time I started writing fanfiction back in LiveJournal days and Tumblr, and I've learned it all from READING BOOKS.
Instead of taking all these "AI theories" from TikTok or wherever (where false information runs rampant and are spread by people who probably have never read a single published book their entire life) and spreading them to hardworking authors out there to accuse them of cheating, why don't you try to READ REAL BOOKS?
If I have been using AI, it wouldn't have taken me years to finish my books, but literal days lol
Please leave us be and let me use my g*dd*mn em dashes in peace.
signed,
a very annoyed and sleep-deprived author.
