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Also accepted: Cael/Kaelan/Kaelen and other minor variations.

"Kael" is a name that ChatGPT frequently generates, particularly when prompted to create speculative fiction and/or dark romance stories. The purpose of this list is to create a record of all the AI-generated books that use this name. (Kael appears infrequently in non-AI published material, such as in Terry Brooks' Shannara series; please only add those found in AI-generated books.)

Companion list for Kael's female counterpart "Elara": https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Companion list for the place name "Eldoria": https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Companion list for the place name "Aethelgard": https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Please don't use AI to generate fiction and then publish it, because it sucks and it's unethical.
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message 1: by James (new)

James Also, honorable mention to ChatGPT's go-to name for Kael's female counterpart, Elara. Bonus points for lack of creativity if a book has them both!


Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!* James wrote: "Also, honorable mention to ChatGPT's go-to name for Kael's female counterpart, Elara. Bonus points for lack of creativity if a book has them both!"

Should we make a companion list?


Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!* Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!* wrote: "James wrote: "Also, honorable mention to ChatGPT's go-to name for Kael's female counterpart, Elara. Bonus points for lack of creativity if a book has them both!"

Should we make a companion list?"


Companion lists created for Elara and Eldoria:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...


message 4: by Chris (new)

Chris Adams Please remove my book, Sword of Vengeance, from this list. Every single word was written by me, a human author who spent years writing it.

I do not have this word "Kael" anywhere in my book and I named my characters myself years before AI even existed. This is a false and defamatory statement claiming my book is AI written based on the name of a character. Look at any baby names book and you will see that my character's name is a Irish name meaning strong in battle which seemed appropriate when I picked it years ago.


message 5: by Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!* (last edited Oct 19, 2025 06:17AM) (new)

Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!* Done. The list description includes variations of the spelling like "Caelen". The AI implication was probably due to the original cover (nice new one, btw) and the blurb still follows patterns typical of AI books, with randomly bolded segments and bullet points (especially emoji bullet points), not just the use of a name. I recommend updating your blurb to avoid any similarity. Regardless of its origins "Kael" is absurdly overrepresented in undeniably AI-generated slop books ever since the current LLM era launched. The list's purpose is to highlight the commonalities of such. I regret if occasional fully human-authored books get caught up in the storm. I'm in the process of going back through many such lists and removing many that may have been the result of overzealousness. Hopefully you hate the existence of AI-generated books flooding the market as much as the list voters. Good luck with your book.


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