The Great AI Author Apocalypse
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THE GREAT AI AUTHOR APOCALYPSE!

When Robots Learned to Write, The Internet Lost Its Mind

450+ COMMENTS
156 VOICES
INFINITE RAGE
Prompt Pete

"What, Me Write?"

- Prompt Pete

A SATIRICAL JOURNEY THROUGH THE INTERNET'S MOST HEATED DEBATE!

THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY!

(Or: How Authors Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Algorithm... NOT!)

Prompt Pulp Statistics Breakdown
43%
TRADITIONAL AUTHORS

"REAL AUTHORS WRITE!"
"AI SLOP!"
"THIS IS THEFT!"

Armed with typewriters and righteous fury
43%
CONFUSED BYSTANDERS

"MEH?"
"I DUNNO..."
"MAYBE?"

Just here for the popcorn
14%
AI ENTHUSIASTS

"IT'S JUST A TOOL!"
"INNOVATION!"
"THE FUTURE!"

Prompting their way to glory

💥 KAPOW! ⚡ ZAP! 🔥 TOTAL CHAOS!

8 WAYS THE INTERNET EXPLODED!

(Or: The Major Themes of This Glorious Trainwreck)

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THE GREAT THEFT DEBATE!

Is AI training on human writing theft or fair use? Traditional authors say THEFT! Tech bros say LEARNING! Nobody agrees!

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WHAT IS 'REAL' WRITING?

If a robot writes a book and nobody reads it, is it still literature? Philosophers everywhere are confused!

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THE QUALITY QUESTION!

AI writing: Generic slop or good enough? Critics point to robotic prose. Fans say 'But it's FAST!' Quality vs. Speed: FIGHT!

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THE JOBS APOCALYPSE!

Will AI replace human authors? Probably not, but try telling that to the angry mob with pitchforks!

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THE ETHICS MINEFIELD!

Should AI-written books be labeled? Is prompting 'authorship'? Is anything real anymore? Existential crisis: ACTIVATED!

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INTERNET TOXICITY!

Passionate debate quickly devolved into name-calling, insults, and general mayhem. Welcome to the internet, folks!

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THE RARE VOICE OF REASON!

Amidst the chaos, a few brave souls offered actual constructive feedback. They were promptly ignored!

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THE FUTURE IS... UNCLEAR!

Where do we go from here? Nobody knows! But everyone has VERY STRONG OPINIONS about it!

And That's Just the Beginning! 🚀

THE PROMPTSTITUTE HALL OF SHAME!

Celebrating the Finest AI-Generated Book Cover Disasters!

(Warning: May Cause Laughter, Despair, or Both)

MYSTIC SHADOWS
AI SLOP!

MYSTIC SHADOWS

by A.I. Author

COUNT THE FINGERS!

MAD's Expert Analysis:

  • 🖐️ One hand has 7 fingers, the other has 3. Math was never AI's strong suit!
  • 👁️ Eyes are different sizes. Is she winking or did the algorithm have a stroke?
  • 🏰 Castle defies all known laws of physics and architecture
  • 🎨 Purple + Teal gradient = Peak AI Aesthetic™
  • 💡 Lighting comes from... everywhere? Nowhere? Who knows!

2/10 - Would not read

GUILTY OF FINGER CRIMES

DRAGON HEART (or 'DRAGN HAERT')
AI SLOP!

DRAGON HEART (or 'DRAGN HAERT')

by A.I. Author

CAN'T EVEN SPELL!

MAD's Expert Analysis:

  • ✍️ Subtitle says 'DRAGN HAERT' - Even spell-check gave up
  • 🗡️ Sword bends like a pool noodle and merges into background
  • 🦎 Dragon has 5 legs because why not?
  • 🎭 Armor is hyper-detailed on left, blurry mess on right
  • ⛰️ Mountains have impossible perspective - M.C. Escher would be confused

1/10 - Spelling matters

GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST TYPOGRAPHY

FORBIDDEN DESIRE
AI SLOP!

FORBIDDEN DESIRE

by A.I. Author

ANATOMY? NEVER HEARD OF HER!

MAD's Expert Analysis:

  • 🤚 Man's hand is BACKWARDS. That's not romantic, that's a medical emergency!
  • 💇 Hair flows in two directions because physics is optional
  • 😐 Faces are plastic-smooth. Welcome to Uncanny Valley!
  • ☀️ TWO SUNS in the background. We're on Tatooine now?
  • 👗 Clothing patterns ignore fabric physics completely

0/10 - Call a doctor

GUILTY OF ANATOMICAL MALPRACTICE

REMEMBER, KIDS:

Just because you CAN prompt it,
doesn't mean you SHOULD!

"What, Me Worry About Quality Control?" - Every AI Prompter Ever

AI COVER GENERATOR SIMULATOR!

Experience the "Magic" of AI Book Covers!

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2 FREE GENERATIONS REMAINING

👆 Enter your book title and prompt above to generate a REAL AI cover!

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SERIOUSLY.

Daily AI × Publishing × Storytelling Briefing

📅 February 4, 2026Generated: 05:20 AM

✍️ AUTHORS & AI

  • A new AI-only social network, Moltbook, features AI agents posting eerie, introspective thoughts.Link
  • Snowflake launched new AI tools, including an agent-powered code generator, and announced a partnership with OpenAI.Link

📜 PUBLISHING CONTRACTS & GUIDELINES

  • AI-generated images, dubbed "AI Slop," have targeted individuals like Zohran Mamdani following the release of Epstein files.Link
  • A Sony patent proposes using generative AI to produce personalized gaming podcasts on PS5, featuring familiar characters.Link
  • Axiomeer, an open-source marketplace protocol for AI agents, allows agents to shop a catalog for tool integrations at runtime.Link

🎧 AI AUDIO & PLATFORM POLICY

  • Story updated its IP unlock schedule, aligning with the network's evolution towards AI-driven use cases.Link
  • OpenAI is reportedly dissatisfied with some Nvidia chips and is seeking alternatives, focusing on chips for AI inference.Link

🎮 INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING & ADAPTATIONS

  • A Sony patent proposes using generative AI to create personalized gaming podcasts on PS5, featuring tailored content and character interactions.Link
  • moonshine-voice 0.0.44 was released as a fast, accurate, on-device AI library for building interactive voice applications.Link
  • Nia Vault, a new CLI, enables semantic search over local notes and markdown files using natural language, providing RAG-style answers with citations.Link
  • backpack-agent was added to PyPI, offering a secure, portable system for managing AI agents with encrypted state and configurations.Link

⚡ AI NEWS TICKER (ULTRA-FRESH)

No major breaking updates in the last 12 hours.

THE COMMENT BATTLEFIELD!

All 450+ Comments of Pure Internet Chaos!

Showing 307 of 307 comments
Mark Borok🤷

I didn't mean to single you out, it's a trend in book covers now.

Page 1NEUTRAL
Daniel Rose🤷

Mark Borok No worries. I'm just fumbling through the early days.

Page 1NEUTRAL
Jasmine Brooks🤷

You call yourself so amazing but cant even see there is a missing limb. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Page 1NEUTRAL
Daniel Rose🤖

Jasmine Brooks I never called myself amazing. Who said that? My fourth wall breaking character? Of course she thinks I'm amazing. That's her job.

Page 1PRO-AI
Daniel Rose🔥

Jasmine Brooks What missing limb? The eagle-man? The limb is behind the girl...or are you seeing something I am not?

Page 1ANTI-AI
Erinleigh Joyner🔥

Daniel RoseI believe she's referring to the missing leg of the creature sitting on the girl's shoulder.

Page 1ANTI-AI
Daniel Rose🤖

Erinleigh Joyner I had thought it behind her shoulder, but I see it now. It looks like the AI cut it off mid thigh. That's a good catch.

Page 1PRO-AI
Simone Fenjin🔥

Daniel Rose Try not using AI trash but hiring an actual human artist. Did you also use AI to 'write' your book? AI is morally bankrupt. Its theft.

Page 1ANTI-AI
Alex Johansson🤷

Daniel Rose it’s not false assumptions and lies when it’s stuff you’ve literally admitted to doing.

Page 2NEUTRAL
Daniel Rose🤷

Alex Johansson Taking my words out of context and then making false assumptions about my process is a straight up lie.

Page 2NEUTRAL
Daniel Rose🤷

James Lewis Take your own advice. I'm over here quietly building an empire.

Page 3NEUTRAL
James Lewis🔥

Daniel Rose Youre a fucking idiot

Page 3ANTI-AI
Daniel Rose🤷

James Lewis Projection. You haven't read the material. You have no idea what you are talking about.

Page 3NEUTRAL
Anonymous participant 815🤖

AI is so easy to identify, if I saw a book with an AI cover, I'd think the story was written by a bot, or the story itself wasn't good. An actual illustration of something this interesting would help me pick the book up! 🙂

Page 3PRO-AI
Daniel Rose🤷

Anonymous participant 815 That’s a weird answer to me. If I drew it out by hand it would be acceptable but because I used a digital tool to show my original characters, it gets a pass. Too weird.

Page 3NEUTRAL
Anonymous participant 815🔥

Daniel Rose AI has a very tacky art style. Any AI art looks computer generated and cheap. An actual illustration shows thought, effort, and creativity.

Page 3ANTI-AI
Ben William Hines🔥

Will never read a novel with an AI cover, because it gives me no reason to believe the words are not also machine generated.

Page 3ANTI-AI
Daniel Rose🔥

Ben William Hines That’s a shame. Guess "never judge a book by its cover" goes out the window when personal bias comes into play. *shrug*

Page 3ANTI-AI
Alex Johansson🔥

You: Ask for constructive feedback and opinions Also you: argues with everyone who rightfully calls you out for your use of ai slop.

Page 3ANTI-AI
Daniel Rose🤷

Alex Johansson Defending myself from false assumptions and outright lies is not arguing.

Page 3NEUTRAL
Ashley Jo Thompson🤖

But is the golden handbag an inside joke? It's glowing like the inside of the Pulp Fiction suitcase, and no one holds a bag like that unless they're actually trying to show something.

Page 4PRO-AI
Dana Reynolds🔥

AI covers make me sad. Human artists, please.

Page 4ANTI-AI
Lucy Jade Buglass🔥

I don’t mean this sarcastically but have you considered hiring a professional artist/ designer? Yes it is an expense but it will benefit you in the long run having a high quality cover that doesn’t very obviously look AI generated.

Page 4ANTI-AI
Elena Kaldwin🔥

It's dogshit lol

Page 4ANTI-AI
Elena Kaldwin🤖

"Writers supporting writers" but not artists and graphic designers, right?

Page 4PRO-AI
TrustworthySquirrel5388🤷

Elena Kaldwin I don’t think you’re going to guilt people into spending money for services they feel they can do on their own. You don’t pay their bills.

Page 4NEUTRAL
Daniel Rose🤷

Elena Kaldwin Thanks for the input

Page 4NEUTRAL
Jackson Murray🔥

AI slop that reflects you’ve also cut corners in your writing and work in general. Also looks goofy as with the handbag 😂😂😂

Page 4ANTI-AI
Daniel Rose🔥

Jackson Murray The handbag is a character in its own right. Not a great image, admittedely, but the story is decent. Not as good as what I have unpublished, but not bad for a first time serial release either.

Page 4ANTI-AI
James Lewis🔥

Long hard day at the slop factory, it's paid off with absolute slop. Stop 'writing' is a good outcome for you.

Page 4ANTI-AI
Anonymous participant 878🔥

With all the ai slop you’re posting, please take time to look up how much resources ai centres chew through every time they process requests like this. Pathetic

Page 5ANTI-AI
Joe Spriggs🔥

It's fucking dogshit

Page 5ANTI-AI
Frankie Ballerini🔥

It looks shit

Page 5ANTI-AI
Rebecca McKay🔥

I wouldn't buy this book.

Page 5ANTI-AI
Rich Stuart🔥

It looks like AI and I’d therefore assume the book would be AI slop so would avoid

Page 5ANTI-AI
Iain Cameron🤷

Its AI. Thats all anyone needs to know.

Page 5NEUTRAL
Shay O'Brien🔥

I hate it because it’s AI. Putting prompts into ChatGPT dosent make you creative or artistic. Pay some damn artists!

Page 5ANTI-AI
Gwydion Jenks🔥

It’ll be bad as long as you use ai

Page 5ANTI-AI
Tony Scott🤷

In the time you've spent arguing with people on here about your AI creation, you could have actually written three books

Page 5NEUTRAL
Ellie Merryweather🔥

Unfortunately the internet is FULL of AI generated images just like this, in terms of style and composition. It's easily ignorable at best, and off-putting at worst. So whether you're a fan of AI or not, it's not advisable to rely on AI art for any type of marketing materials. As others have said, something simpler will be better. Even a blank background with the right font and colour combination can be quite eyecatching (I'm thinking of the Fitzcarraldo editions, or the little Penguin Classics. More complicated =/= better)

Page 6ANTI-AI
Sam Merry🤷

GarbAlge

Page 6NEUTRAL
Conor Hugh🔥

Man, this is garbage.

Page 6ANTI-AI
Kaori-sama Furiku🔥

You yourself are probably a bot since you seem to be posting multiple times in one day with shitty ai posts. Please cease "writing" unless you actually bother to write without ai as a crutch. Maybe your idead are not shit, but the way you go about it is.

Page 6ANTI-AI
BronzeLion2411🤷

This image simply does not tell a story. A story cover - whether for a short story, a novel, or anything else - should tell the (potential) audience a story.

Page 6NEUTRAL
Natasha Shaw🔥

Disgusting AI slop

Page 7ANTI-AI
Philip Avery🤷

I think this is too much of a perfect picture rather than a cover design. A lot would depend on the text and the font

Page 7NEUTRAL
David Owen🔥

Looks like cheap AI shite, awful

Page 7ANTI-AI
Iulia Maria🔥

yeah so read the room bestie, everyone is getting themselves and their work cancelled for using ai in their cover arts and writing. youre not a real author. this isnt a real cover for your book. it looks cheap, that bag looks horrendous and it doesn’t suit the vibe, youre wearing makeup and have a shiny nose in a picture that looks to be taking place in a forest but youre dressed as a pirate😭😭😭 ts dont make sense love. give yourself a few years and write ur stuff urself. get an artist to design the cover since whatever concoction youve made… is just not it.

Page 7ANTI-AI
James Graves🔥

AI slop be slopping

Page 7ANTI-AI
Iulia Maria🤷

after reading all your comments, ive come to the conclusion that you must not be a real person anyway🤣 go for that engagement, bot! going well so far🤣

Page 7NEUTRAL

Plus 257 More Comments!

(We ran out of space. It's THAT chaotic!)

THE END?

(The debate rages on...)

A PROMPT PULP Look at The Great AI Author Apocalypse

This website was made by humans...
OR WAS IT? 🤖

Satirical exploration of 450+ real comments from a Facebook group, Authors Supporting Authors, about AI-generated creative content. All opinions expressed are those of the commenters, not the management. No robots were harmed in the making of this website.

© 2026 Jayne Lytel

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SLOP APOCALYPSE IMMINENT

IT'S TOO LATE! THE ROBOTS HAVE WON! HUMANITY IS DOOMED!

Based on totally scientific calculations since ChatGPT went mainstream.

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