South African author publishes 370 books in 20 months with AI and dares critics to prove readers hate them
370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI
Writing under the pseudonym Coral Hart, a South African author has released more than 370 titles since February 2025 by combining ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok with her own outlines, developmental edits, and a human proofreader. She says she has sold over a million books and earned more than $1 million this year, while facing tens of thousands of hate messages and death threats. She is now training hundreds of people in her method and preparing to launch software for AI authors called Authorythm.
If you need an AI label to hate something, do you hate it, or do you hate AI?
- throwa356262
I am proposing a new law: Any content where more then 2% has been created by AI should be clearly marked as such.
Would improve both Amazon and YouTube significantly. I have basically stopped using them after seeing all LLM spam.
- impostervt
Amazon KDP recently put a limit of 2 books published per week because of this kind of thing.
- skeledrew
> "Books are selling."
That said it all, and literally the only thing that matters, because sales means demand, which means people find the works valuable.
- 4thguy
I'm unsure where the line is drawn for LLM ect in the arts is supposed to be, but the article does say that she "heads an operation that has trained several hundred people in her method". So, let's take the LLM out of the question, is it fair to say that she is the author?
I'm not saying that authors should mine clay, hand-carve the letters on a clay tablet, and fire it up in a kiln that they built themselves; but authorship requires intent.
- netdevphoenix
Not sure how her nationality is relevant here. Only the usage of LLMs in this manner matters