Evidence mounts that AI-written books are consuming the publishing industry: in 2025, the number of self-published books jumped by 40% YoY, from 2.5 million to 3.5 million. Running a random sample of these books through an AI detection tool shows a 40% YoY increase in books flagged as AI.

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Evidence mounts that AI-written books are consuming the publishing industry: in 2025, the number of self-published books jumped by 40% YoY, from 2.5 million to 3.5 million. Running a random sample of these books through an AI detection tool shows a 40% YoY increase in books flagged as AI.

The New York Times: "The program found that nearly 20 percent of the novels had been substantially written by A.I. Looking mostly at novels released between 2024 and 2025, Chakrabarty saw a 41 percent jump year-over-year in how many novels in his random sample contained a large amount of A.I. generated text"

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