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"Elara" is a name that ChatGPT frequently generates for female characters, particularly when prompted to create speculative fiction and/or dark romance stories. The purpose of this list is to create a record of AI-generated books that use this name.
Minor variations of "Elara" in obviously AI-generated books are also allowed on this list.
Companion list for Elara's male counterpart "Kael": 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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The intention of this list is to identify books that show strong indications of generative AI use in their creation, from cover images to the writing itself. There are well-established frequent common denominators in AI books, including use of AI image generators and stereotypical text patterns; these are the basis for identifying a book as AI generated or "AI slop." This is to alert readers who do not want to unintentionally encounter AI is book spaces. If users are comfortable with generative AI use in the books they might choose, labelling books like this will not deter them.
Before adding a book to this list, please be sure you are familiar with the output of generative AI when it comes to book content. If you're not already well-versed, read some established AI books to learn the patterns, and see collections of AI-generated images (e.g. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...) to familiarize yourself with the look of such things. One potentially useful guide to spotting typical AI writing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped.... Any books voted here certainly must have been published after the public release of generative AI tools; the onslaught of AI slop books mostly started only late 2023, and ChatGPT's image generator, which dominates AI book illustration since its release, launched at the end of March 2024.
If an author objects to a book's inclusion on this list and genuinely did not use generative AI in any way, shape, or form, they can comment here and users may re-examine the book in question. Keep in mind: if it walks and talks and quacks like a duck .... "AI generated" in this case refers to any output that is typical of generative AI, no matter how much the publisher may believe they contributed to the work through complex AI prompting. And if your book reproduces stereotypical patterns at a frequency that is usually only seen in AI slop, you might want to think about that.
Minor variations of "Elara" in obviously AI-generated books are also allowed on this list.
Companion list for Elara's male counterpart "Kael": 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.
********
The intention of this list is to identify books that show strong indications of generative AI use in their creation, from cover images to the writing itself. There are well-established frequent common denominators in AI books, including use of AI image generators and stereotypical text patterns; these are the basis for identifying a book as AI generated or "AI slop." This is to alert readers who do not want to unintentionally encounter AI is book spaces. If users are comfortable with generative AI use in the books they might choose, labelling books like this will not deter them.
Before adding a book to this list, please be sure you are familiar with the output of generative AI when it comes to book content. If you're not already well-versed, read some established AI books to learn the patterns, and see collections of AI-generated images (e.g. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...) to familiarize yourself with the look of such things. One potentially useful guide to spotting typical AI writing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped.... Any books voted here certainly must have been published after the public release of generative AI tools; the onslaught of AI slop books mostly started only late 2023, and ChatGPT's image generator, which dominates AI book illustration since its release, launched at the end of March 2024.
If an author objects to a book's inclusion on this list and genuinely did not use generative AI in any way, shape, or form, they can comment here and users may re-examine the book in question. Keep in mind: if it walks and talks and quacks like a duck .... "AI generated" in this case refers to any output that is typical of generative AI, no matter how much the publisher may believe they contributed to the work through complex AI prompting. And if your book reproduces stereotypical patterns at a frequency that is usually only seen in AI slop, you might want to think about that.
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list created March 24th
by Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!* (votes) .
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I've seen plenty of Reddit posts in the past that AI users are well aware of all this. It's okay, even without specific word tells there are plenty of signs of AI writing that can never be eliminated. The bulk of the slop is from people who don't even make any effort to see what other AI slop contains, so confident are they in their own creations. It's the only explanation for the thousands of Chronicles of Eldoria that have been published.
Those who think they are clever are now taking the extra step to make a half-hearted attempt to throw people off the scent by doing a replace all, leading to an uptick in Eliras and Elaryas.
They likely think this is a much more viable solution than oh, I dunno...ACTUALLY CREATING AND WRITING SOMETHING.
Of course, there are still plenty in the Denhartog category who just blindly copy and paste what ChatGPT pukes out without reviewing a single overwrought word.