{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Booktalking - All about Shy Girl and whether AI in publishing is more like plutonium or salt","description":"Hosts Michael Tamblyn and Nathan Maharaj dove deep on the controversy around the book Shy Girl, which was cancelled by its publisher who alleged it was largely AI-generated. Links on Shy Girl: The video from January 2026 that seems to have led to 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 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: I Broke the Year\u2019s Biggest Literary Story. The New York Times Took the Credit | The Walrus Two very "inside baseball" overviews of what happened: The New Publishing Standard's deep dive on Shy Girl Publisher\u2019s 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 "AI Sally Rooney" (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 kobo.com\/conversation Find past Booktalking episodes here ","author_name":"Kobo in Conversation","author_url":"https:\/\/koboinconversation.libsyn.com\/site","html":"