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Could you spot an AI-written book?

A Little Free Library in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, DC, on April 25, 2026. | Allison Robbert for the Washington Post via Getty Images However you feel about AI writing, it has a few giveaways. According to the writer Imogen West-Knights, “there’s things like negative parallelisms…or excessive use of metaphor and similes, especially ones that don’t quite make sense or that come very rapidly, one after another. Every noun having an adjective attached, certain kinds of repetitive syntactical blocks that appear.” So naturally, when an author uses AI to write their boo...