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Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2025
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I can understand that this hurts for the authors, as they often have little to no say in cover design, but I also am not sad for this decision. The publishers or whoever thought these were reasonable book covers deserve to be called out for this. The authors need to find better publishers, or the company needs to feel the backlash from this shit, otherwise they’ll keep doing it.
Who am I kidding, Rothwell keep doing it anyway.