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Big fan of Janny Wurts, particularly the Empire series she co-wrote with Raymond E Feist. Very surprised she was outed as an AI, though she is the only author I've ever had to pull out the dictionary as she used a word I had never seen and wanted to be sure of the meaning in the context.

[npinsker]

I was very (wrongly) confident she was AI. I thought her prose was bland and repetitive and lacking melody, and she was the only human author to explicitly mention demons in the first paragraph, which is something that happens when you prompt an AI for a demon story.

The twist had potential, but to me wasn’t executed as well as it could have been. I was hoping for some stronger irony — e.g. if the mainlanders had pushed for the bridge, but not the islanders; or a sentence about how the demons were very surprised, but nonetheless went on to take over the world before they knew what had happened. As it is, it felt underdeveloped and slightly uncanny in an AI-like way.

[dwd]

The twist was the one thing that made me think it was human written. I quite liked her story after the second read. But sad to say, I actually preferred most of the AI ones over the rest.