浪漫出版业面临AI问题，而大多数读者尚未意识到

Source: Slashdot

AI‑Generated Romance Fiction: An Emerging Issue

AI 生成的浪漫小说：新出现的问题

The romance genre—long the publishing industry’s earliest adopter of technological shifts, from e‑books to self‑publishing to serial releases—has become the front line for AI‑generated fiction, and the results, as you can imagine, are messy.
浪漫小说类型长期以来一直是出版业在技术变革（从电子书到自出版再到连载发行）方面的最早采用者，如今已成为 AI 生成小说的前线，正如你可以想象的那样，结果相当混乱。

Case Study: Coral Hart

案例研究：Coral Hart

Coral Hart, a Cape Town‑based novelist previously published by Harlequin and Mills & Boone, produced more than 200 AI‑assisted romance novels last year and self‑published them on Amazon, where they collectively sold around 50,000 copies. She found Anthropic’s Claude delivered the most elegant prose but was terrible at sexy banter; other programs like Grok and NovelAI wrote graphic scenes that felt rushed and mechanical. Chatbots struggled broadly to build the slow‑burn sexual tension romance readers crave.
Coral Hart 是一位居住在开普敦的小说家，曾由 Harlequin 和 Mills & Boone 出版。她去年创作了超过 200 部 AI 辅助的浪漫小说，并在亚马逊自行出版，总销量约为 5 万册。她发现 Anthropic 的 Claude 能写出最优雅的散文，却在性感调侃方面表现糟糕；其他程序如 Grok 和 NovelAI 则写出感觉仓促且机械的露骨场景。聊天机器人普遍难以营造读者渴求的慢热性张力。

Survey of Authors

作者调查

A BookBub survey of more than 1,200 authors found roughly a third were using generative AI for plotting, outlining, or writing, and the majority did not disclose this to readers.
BookBub 对 1,200 多位作者的调查显示，大约三分之一的作者在情节构思、提纲或写作中使用生成式 AI，而大多数作者并未向读者透露这一点。

Market Context

市场背景

Romance accounts for more than 20 % of all adult‑fiction print sales, according to Circana BookScan, and the genre’s reliance on familiar tropes and narrative formulas makes it especially susceptible to AI disruption.
根据 Circana BookScan 的数据，浪漫小说占所有成人小说印刷销量的 20 %以上，该类型对熟悉的套路和叙事公式的依赖，使其尤其容易受到 AI 的冲击。