Author writes 370 book sin 20 months with AI (Credits: X)
\n\nWhat if an author could publish hundreds of books in less than two years, using AI to do much of the writing? For South African writer Coral Hart this is no longer a hypothetical question. The romance novelist says she has published more than 370 books using AI since February 2025. But her extraordinary output has also made her a controversial figure in the publishing world.
\n\nHart, who uses a pseudonym to protect her real identity, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that she had received tens of thousands of hateful messages and several death threats over her use of AI. Her experience has brought a growing debate in the literary world into sharp focus: where does human creativity end and machine-generated writing begin?
\n\nHart did not begin her career with AI. She had spent 14 years working in publishing and written several dozen works before adopting the technology. She says it took her around three months to learn how different AI models worked and develop a system that could help her produce books at scale. Rather than simply asking a chatbot to write an entire novel, Hart starts with the…
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