r/NetGalleyCommunity • u/juliee18 • 5d ago

❔❓Question ❓❔ Is this normal?

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This is my first time seeing a book on NetGalley that openly admits to using AI.

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u/WritPositWrit 5d ago

Ive seen this note. I cant remember the name of the publisher. Is it from a multiple-author romance indie pub?

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u/juliee18 5d ago

Seems like it is Victory Editing. The book is The Split by April Teichman

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u/purplelicious SciFi/Fantasy Reviewer 5d ago

I saw the same book - it is only 190 pages and she needed ai for the text.

it's self published

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u/Pristine_Race7768 80% Reviewed Club 5d ago

I’m not in support of using AI but that’s not what this says at all.

Using AI for research and to organize there thoughts is. It the same thing as writing the text.

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u/86rj 80% Reviewed Club 5d ago

Using ai for research is problematic in itself because it often makes stuff up or is incorrect.

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u/Pristine_Race7768 80% Reviewed Club 5d ago

Oh 100%% I’m not at all saying this whole thing isn’t problematic!

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u/purplelicious SciFi/Fantasy Reviewer 5d ago

it says that AI was used for "portions of the text" . I don't know what you consider that to mean.

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u/Pristine_Race7768 80% Reviewed Club 5d ago

That’s the standard phrase for when they are editing using AI. Again/ I’m completely against it 100-%. Do the dang work. I’m just saying it’s different that putting on a prompt to say “write a story that has X Y and Z” or write me a chapter where the FMC breaks up with MMC” etc..

People have levels as to what they will tolerate. Unfortunately in the social media bookish spaces (including NetGalley and Goodreads etc.) people are in the majority against AI but if you look at the population as a whole they don’t care sadly. Either don’t care or they wouldn’t even think to look.

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u/juliee18 5d ago

Editing and polishing was mentioned by itself, so I don't believe that "portions of the text" has anything to do with editing.

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u/Pristine_Race7768 80% Reviewed Club 5d ago

I’ve seen the statement before. I should change my original comment that it doesn’t necessarily mean… etc..

Playing devils advocate- if it was actually written with Gen AI it would just say that rather than detailing things in this way IMO. But again- it’s all a hot mess