How we check

This is the standard every page on the site follows. It's written to match what the reading communities themselves ask for. In July 2026, r/RomanceBooks changed its rules so that a question of "is this AI?" needs at least two different types of evidence. We hold ourselves to the same bar, and we show our work.

What counts as evidence

• Quotes or screenshots of passages with the tells readers recognise.
• Cover art made with an image generator.
• The author's own words: an admission, a prompt left in a book, public support for using AI to write, or the opposite, a clear statement that they don't.
• Publication cadence: many full-length books in a short time from one name.
• Detector samples: passages from several points in the book scored by a detection model. We show the model, the date, and how many samples we have. We never show a score for a book with fewer than three samples, and we never keep the text.

A detector score is one type of evidence and it can be wrong. It's never the headline.

What we say

Every page carries one of these lines. The line is computed from the evidence, not written by hand.

• No evidence of AI. Nothing on the page suggests it.
• Reader concern, no evidence. People are asking. Nobody has shown anything yet.
• Some evidence, unconfirmed. One type of evidence, or detector samples alone.
• Strong evidence. Two or more independent types of evidence.
• Confirmed by the author.

Why the opening chapters aren't enough

Readers keep reporting the same thing: an AI-assisted book often starts fine and falls apart later. So a sample from the free preview counts for less than one from the middle or the end, and we ask where in the book a sample came from.

Authors

If you wrote a book on this site, you can reply. Your statement goes at the top of the page in your words, with a link. You can ask for a re-scan with samples you choose, and you can ask us to take a page down. We answer within 48 hours.

What we don't do

We don't store the text readers paste. We don't scrape bookstores. We don't sell a tool that hides AI writing. We don't call a book AI-written on the strength of a score.