God Child who wrote fantasy novels Hunting and Hunting, She has been writing since she was a child, and after a long process, she says she plots the manuscript a few years before she puts pen on paper. A few days after seeing Aveyard's 1,000-page compilation article, Godschild wrote to his computer and posted a time-lapse of himself, captioning the video. The caption also states that she “is not a thief” and that “the murderer is so unpredictable that even a machine can't understand who it is.”
Some writers use AI controversy to remind people of the extremely human skills they need to create complex stories.
Rachel Menard, author of YA Indie, has posted a Tiktok opening a draft of one of her manuscripts and writes that if she uses AI, “I wouldn't take 78 drafts to get it done.”
“Everyone has forgotten what makes a book good. It's a piece that goes into it,” says Menard, who wrote three books independently. She added that AI might be able to “populate a decent spice scene,” but it cannot create a compelling story. “If my character doesn't feel like a real person and doesn't lead a real life, if he has real problems, then I need to keep working on it.”
Quan Millz is an indie author with over 830,000 Tiktok followers and famous for his incredible “Street Trit” title The old thot next door and This hoe got a cockroach in her cribsays he wrote using AI. Before revealing his identity in Tiktok in 2023, the black Miltz even accused him of being a white man and that he was a “CIA operative.”
“It's obvious that you write every book using AI. There's no way to drop a book this fast,” one commenter wrote in one of Millz's posts.
Millz uses AI to create the cover of the book. This includes books that are still in conceptual stages, but allegations that he is writing with the tool are false.
“In hell, there's no way to get one of these AI models and actually capture the essence of how black people are talking,” Miltz tells Wired. The author says he used AI to test his writing, discovering that a major language model censored his adult scenes and was unable to replicate the subtle tones. “I don't understand Aave [African American Vernacular English] It's not monolithic… Black people in Chicago don't sound like black people in New York. ”
Millz hosts several people from Tiktok Lives who record the writing process in real time, but tells Wired that he won't host any more, even if it helps to prove to skeptics that his written work is original.
Continuous check-in with commenters is hindering his writing process, he says, and he feels that while having a social presence in indie publishing is important, filming your process provides no evidence of AI-free work than your work itself. “I think there are truly transcendental things about human experiences. Something mysterious we don't know yet, and you can feel it through art,” says Miltz. “When I read an AI text, even if I'm doing a good job trying to edit it or make it yourself, something is still wrong.”
