Feud Over AI Book Cover Has Authors at Each Other’s Throats

The debate over artificial intelligence in publishing came to a head Monday, with a testy back-and-forth between writers and a publisher leaving one author in “absolute devastation” after a slew of “hate messages started rolling in.”

The feud centered around the cover art used for The Stricken, a novel authored by Morgan Shamy and published by CamCat Books. Shamy teased the book in a video early in July, showing off its cover art—a woman standing with her eyes closed, overlaid with a fictional city’s skyline.

That cover was found to have been created largely with artificial intelligence, according to novelist Rebecca F. Kenney. Kenney shared as much online—to Shamy’s dismay—and called out CamCat for being “harmful to the creative community,” sparking a massive debate among authors and those in publishing.

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