Description: Hachette Book Group reportedly canceled U.S. publication of Mia Ballard's horror novel Shy Girl and said its Wildfire imprint would not continue publishing the U.K. edition after investigating allegations that parts of the book were generated with AI. Ballard reportedly said she did not personally use AI and suggested an editor of an earlier self-published version may have done so.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown generative AI developers and Unknown large language model developers developed an AI system deployed by Mia Ballard's editor, which harmed Mia Ballard , Hachette Book Group and Novelists.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown generative AI systems and Unknown large language models
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1444
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-03-19
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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The Hachette Book Group said Thursday that it has canceled the publication of horror novel "Shy Girl" following an investigation into the origins of the book.
The novel, by Mia Ballard, was expected to publish May 19 in the U.S. via its Orb…
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