u/NeverAGod

Does anyone else find that once you start reading Kindle Unlimited, you begin reading darker or kinkier romances?

I've had KU for 7 years and I swear I am not even phased by most things anymore whereas when I first read a dark romance (looking at you Den of Vipers by K.A. Knight), I felt like I needed therapy after.

I'm not kink shaming, just curious if anyone else has experienced this because it reminds of how YouTube and p*rn algorithms push viewers to more extreme content.

I've had KU since 2019 and I read a lot of romance and fantasy. I'm used to badly written or edited work, but there was something about the books that made them still worth reading even when it was full of tropes. Now trying to read a book published after 2025 is a fun game of: is this written mostly by AI?

I know some authors are being falsely accused of using AI and it has a really negative impact on their sales, so I am very reluctant to post reviews that voice my concern. I am also concerned about how Amazon would try and monitor AI books because a false positive could have detrimental effects on a writer's livelihood. But something needs to be done because it's getting hard to find those imperfectly enjoyable books. I am at the point where I am not going to read new authors and just hope that the authors I like continue to write rather than rely on AI to get their stories across.

If any KU authors read this and are contemplating AI, I know the expectations to get books out fast and the compensation isn't fair but please don't publish something that is so empty of humanity. Write something imperfect and real. It's not enjoyable to read a character go through a linear plot with an AI trying to evoke human emotion with lines like "Like a man carved from midnight and moonlight" or "This isn't a school. It's a predator, dressed in stone". (Also, I am not positive those lines were written by AI but it's consistent with what I've seen written by AI when I try to play a text RPG with chatgpt)