The New Fabio Is Claude

Last February the writer Coral Hart began using artificial intelligence to produce romance novels. Over eight months she created 21 pen names and published dozens, and found chatbots ill-suited to writing about sex and love: some programs refused explicit content, others produced graphic scenes that lacked emotional nuance, and Claude "delivered the most elegant prose, but was terrible at sexy banter." "You are going to get hammering hearts and thumping chests and stupid stuff," she said.

Chatbots often jumped straight to consummation instead of building slow-burn tension. Hart found Anthropic’s chatbot the most versatile and learned to work around Claude’s prudishness by feeding very specific instructions, lists of kinks and stressing that sex was crucial to the plot.

With A.I. she produced more than 200 romance novels across subgenres in a year and said they collectively sold around 50,000 copies, earning her six figures.

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