> Currently people care because so much of AI output is still poor quality. But given I personally know of someone with published AI-generated works where the reviews are gushing and positive across the board, I doubt people will care whether works are AI generated for very long vs whether the text is good.

I think this has less to do with the quality of the text and more to do with whether people have standards or not.

For every person who reads a paragraph of AI text and is instantly disgusted, there are probably 10 or more people who will gladly read pages upon pages of the sloppiest slop imaginable copy-pasted straight from chatgpt.com without batting an eye. That's just how things are, most people have very low standards.

Getting any of the current codemaxxed models to output natural text without obvious AI-isms is not an easy feat, and I doubt this person you mentioned has somehow cracked the case.

I've seen the text, and it was genre typical.

You get 80% of the way there just by giving them a writing sample and asking them to copy the style paragraph by paragraph. You get a lot further with some basic statistics to look for seriously out of distribution word use.

The hard problem isn't prose, but consistency over a long text.

I don't know how he's achieved that, but I've seen the reviews and none complained about consistency issues, which readers tend to be sticklers about.