Author

AI Usage

Adrian Blue

AI Covers

Aimee Easterling

AI Covers & Imagery on her Website

Blogs about using AI and how it is still not convenient enough for her (link)

Alexis S Praks

AI Covers

Andy Weir

Posted AI Generated images of his wife as a cave woman after he “got bored and played around with it again” (link)

Has a long interview in which he talks about AI and expressed pro AI sentiment specifically talking about AI in art (link)

Anna Price

AI prompt left in text (link)

Arden Hart

AI Promo Material on Facebook & AI Covers

Ariel Brouilette

AI Covers & Promo Material

Bella Moondragon

AI Covers & AI Headshot on the website of her Publishing Company (Rogue Wolf Publishing), which also uses AI on their website (link)

Cara Wylde

AI Covers

Cassie Alexander

AI Covers & boasted about using AI to write her books. Doubled down when faced with backlash

Gives talks on how to use AI to generate merchandise and victimises herself about the consequences of her actions (link)

Is very proud about being an “early adopter” of AI and possibly being the first author to use AI in her books

Celeste King

AI Covers & Promo Material

Christopher Paolini

AI Cover for “Fractal Noise”

Publishers claimed they didn’t know at the time but still went ahead with the AI Cover, a decision Paolini has supported because he didn’t want to delay the release by getting a new cover.

Daniel H. Pink

Regularly promotes using AI for self improvement & sells entire guides about it (link)

Delilah Evermore

Forgot to delete the ChatGPT prompt from their book, which has now been unpublished (link)

Eden Ember

AI Covers, Audiobooks & Promo Material

Effin Older

AI Covers made by her husband who wrote an article on how easy it is even without formal artistic training and now his AI Covers replaced the og covers

Eliza Willis

has published 13 books in 3 months, all with AI Covers

Elizabeth Smither

AI Cover for a book (Angel Train) submitted for an award, which she was disqualified from for using AI (link)

Elle Thorpe

Uses AI for promo on social media

Elodie Hart

Used AI promo material in 2024 and defended its usage in the comments, seems to have moved away from it by now (2026)

Hannah Pennington

Made pro-AI posts on Threads (link)

Harper Wylde

Made a video promoting an AI writing software (link)

Uses AI for promo on social media

Ivy Smoak

Uses AI for promo on social media

James Frey

Admitted to using AI for “Next to Heaven” and continued to defend it upon facing backlash (link)

Jesi Donovan

AI Covers

Jessa Hastings

Posted AI generated images of her characters on Instagram (link)

Threatened to withhold book release and kill of a fan favorite character upon receiving backlash

Jesse Pack

Caught using AI when she forgot to delete the AI prompt (link)

Also publishes under the names Beck Winters, Rhonda Amanda, Eve Winters to hide how frequently she publishes AI generated books

J.K. Serena

Jodie King

AI Covers & Promo Material

Joe Vasicek

Admits to using Ai to ‘write’ the Sea Mage Cycle Series

Continues to defend and insist on his AI usage and write entire blog articles about bad reviews he gets for using AI (link)

Jolie Vines

Uses AI for promo on social media

Joseph J Washington

Uses AI for promo on social media

K. C. Crowne

Forgot to delete the ChatGPT prompt from her book. Claimed she only uses it for minor edits (link)

K. G. Reuss

Uses AI for promo on social media & continues to defend it (link)

K. L. Speer

Has proudly talked about being “an ai graphic design artist” and is now backpaddling and claiming she made them by hand

AI Covers + Promo Material (link)

Kate Seger

AI Covers & Promo material

Openly boasts about AI usage on social media (link)

& mocks authors who are upset about having their works scraped by AI (link)

Fiercely defends her AI usage (link)

Alias: Lola Dresden

Kelsie Rae

Uses AI for promo on social media

Promoted the making of AI audiobooks (link)

Kira Cole

AI Covers

Layla Fae

AI Covers

AI Promo Material on Socials (link)

Responded to criticism by writing an enemies to lovers about an anti AI woman falling for her ‘clanker’ bodyguard (link)

Leanne Leeds

Openly talks about having used AI from the very beginning and never having written a book herself & boasts on how easy book writing is with AI

Promoted AI writing companies on her blog and continues to spread “resources” on how to do it (link)

Lena McDonald

Forgot to delete the ChatGPT prompt from “Darkhollow Academy: Year Two” (link)

Lola Dresden

Openly admits to and boasts about using AI for writing

AI Promo Material on Social Media

Offers her services as an editor, which judging by her entire website means putting it into ChatGPT

Alias: Kate Seger

Matty Dalrymple

Expressed pro AI sentiment in her podcasts, including her plan to train an AI model to narrate all her books into audiobooks (link)

MJ / Minjae Kim

AI Covers & promo material

Nina Sestina

AI Covers

Olga Tokarczuk

Has admitted to using AI for research and developing her ideas; denies using AI in the actual writing process (link)

Olivia Belle Kildare

AI Covers & AI Headshot on the website of her Publishing Company (Rogue Wolf Publishing), which also uses AI on their website (link)

Rania Faris

Forgot to delete the ChatGPT prompt from “Rogue Souls”. Claims a beta reader was responsible for using AI (link)

Raven merlot

AI Promo Material

Rebel Bloom

AI Audiobooks on Audible

Rie Quadan

Admitted to using ChatGPT to write her award winning book “Sympathy Tower Tokyo” (link)

Rose James

AI Covers

S. Alexander

AI Covers

S. J. Pajonas

Admitted to using AI for writing and continues to not only defend it but make posts coaching people on how to use AI for book writing (link)

Sam Beckessinger

Disclosed using ChatGPT for writing

Sam Steele

AI Covers

Scarlett K Wilde

AI Covers

Selena Winters

AI Promo Material on Facebook & AI Generated Covers

S.R. Meadows

AI Covers

Stacy Jones

Made a video promoting an AI writing software (link)

Stephanie Johnson

AI Cover for a book (Obligate Carnivore) submitted for an award, which she was disqualified from for using AI (link)

Sienna Patterson

alias of Lena McDonald, who has been exposed for using AI

Sydney Faith

Has a YouTube Channel discussing how she used ChatGPT to write her book and giving tips to other AI “authors”

T.R. Strack

Has an entire AI persona on tiktok (link)

Zara Lee

AI Covers

J.K. Serena, Lira Flux, Kiara Sere, Destiny Lyre, Zola Lore, Anya Vow, Vera Fae, Via Thorn, R.R. Zeta, K.A. Iris

All of these “Authors” appear to be part of the same mass producing AI factory as they all feature each other as co-writers with the same covers, same vague plot, all faceless authors with no picture, no bio, no social media presence…