"The sapphic fiction community is under attack by scammers using AI to churn out rip-off books based on real sapphic novels.

684 suspicious titles were identified, mostly published since March 2025, likely all by the same person under 53 different pseudonyms.

This blog post shares a list of red flags to help identify possible AI rip-offs."

I'm watching a readwithcindy video talking about writers using AI, and she mentioned and linked to this article.... it's nuts just how much of the indie market is getting flooded with this crap

I'm sure this isn't the only genre being targeted either... readwithcindy was also talking about just, writers who got caught leaving AI prompts in the ebook versions of their books

it huuugely sucks that this is so rampant in self-publishing or indie publishing especially, a lot of the legit authors in those spaces are by no means popular or rich and could use the support