370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI

South African writer Coral Hart, a pseudonym, told AFP she has published more than 370 books since February 2025 using AI models including ChatGPT, Claude and Grok, and says she has received tens of thousands of hate messages and several death threats. She defines story concepts, characters and chapter outlines before her system drafts books, which then go through AI edits and a human proofreader, and she estimates she has sold over one million books and earned more than $1 million this year. Hart, who heads an operation training several hundred people in her method and is preparing software for AI authors called Authorythm, responds to "AI slop" accusations by saying "Books are selling."