1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Hosts Michael Tamblyn and Nathan Maharaj dove deep on the controversy around the book&amp;nbsp;Shy Girl, which was cancelled by its publisher who alleged it was largely AI-generated. Links on&amp;nbsp;Shy Girl: The video from January 2026 that seems to have led to&amp;nbsp;Shy Girl's cancellation: i'm pretty sure this book is ai slop - YouTube Publishing news journalist Alexandra Alter on the controversy over the cancellation of&amp;nbsp;Shy Girl: A.I. Is Writing Fiction. Publishers Are Unprepared. - The New York Times Publishing industry analyst Thad McIlroy on what NYT omitted from their piece:&amp;nbsp;I Broke the Year’s Biggest Literary Story. The New York Times Took the Credit | The Walrus Two very &quot;inside baseball&quot; overviews of what happened: The New Publishing Standard's deep dive on Shy Girl Publisher’s Weekly industry analysis What might be the last extant page on any of Hachette's sites about the book: Shy Girl: Read the femgore revenge novel that EVERYONE is talking about! by Mia Ballard - Books - Hachette Australia Other links from this episode: Why AI detection is hard People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are accurate and robust detectors of AI-generated text - ACL Anthology (mistakenly attributed to MIT in the episode) Past episodes of this show that touched on the use of AI in book publishing: Michael bets on &quot;AI Sally Rooney&quot; (from October 2024) Anna Gomez enlisted AI for research assistance when writing a romance road trip (November 2024) Sean Michaels wrote a book about AI and art by using AI for parts of it (November 2023) More author interviews at&amp;nbsp;kobo.com/conversation Find past Booktalking episodes&amp;nbsp;here Kobo in Conversation https://koboinconversation.libsyn.com/site <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/41168960/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/bf0000/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/201592610