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delis-thumbs-7etoday at 1:24 PM1 replyview on HN

> Now though, I have to wonder if people who think this with such conviction are falling for the toupee fallacy.

If this is the case it should be quite easy for you to provide examples of excellent AI-fiction.

As for the “well-known author”, Occam’s razor says he (like most “well-known accomplished authors”) doesn’t know what the hell he is talking about.


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1domtoday at 1:38 PM

> If this is the case it should be quite easy for you to provide examples of excellent AI-fiction.

I feel that's the opposite of the toupee fallacy. The lack of labelled excellent AI fiction supports the idea that there's a lot of excellent fiction that was written by largely by AI but nobody was able to identify it as AI, because they were looking for writing that makes them vomit.

Regardless, how about this: https://deadline.com/2026/07/ai-questions-debut-novel-book-f...

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