Coral Hart, 200 AI Romance Books, and Why We're Still Safe from Robot Smut

In this episode of Good Girls, we talk about the New York Times article "The New Fabio is Claude" and how AI is shaking up the romance industry. We discuss Coral Hart, the author churning out 200 AI-assisted romance novels a year under multiple pen names, and share our honest reactions after reading her work.We break down what feels missing in AI-generated stories...that human connection, emotional depth, and organic tension...and talk about the ethics of it all, from AI scraping existing books that go uncredited to authors not disclosing their use of AI. We also cover the survey showing a third of authors are quietly using AI, the challenges of writing sex scenes with guardrails, and why tropes like forced proximity just don’t hit the same with AI --- based off the mess of Coral Hart's books.This is our take on whether AI can truly write romance, and why we’re still betting on human romance writers for the good stuff. Stay tuned for our follow-up where we test it ourselves!