Writer “wrote” 370 books with the help of AI and got rich

The writer from South Africa, working under the pseudonym Coral Hart, has released 371 works using artificial intelligence in 20 months. According to radio station EWN, thanks to neural networks, the woman managed to earn more than a million dollars.

Hart began using AI to create literary works in February 2025. By that time, she had been engaged in publishing for 14 years and managed to write several dozen books on her own. The total circulation of the sold works of the writer exceeded one million copies, and her income for 2026 amounted to more than $ 1 million.

The woman took about three months to develop her own text generation system. During this time, she studied the capabilities of several neural networks and established the process of creating books. Now it takes 45 minutes for artificial intelligence to prepare a draft of the novel.

At the same time, Hart retains key creative decisions. She comes up with a plot, works out the characters of the characters, chooses the style of the narrative and makes a detailed plan for each chapter.

The text received from the neural network goes through several stages of revision. First, the AI edits the work twice, correcting plot inconsistencies and other shortcomings. Then a person is connected to the work, who reads the manuscript and eliminates the characteristic features of machine generation. Only then will the book be published.

Earlier, “MK” reported the death of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, the author of the novels “All shades of blue”, “Children from the storage room” and “Miso-soup”. The writer died at the age of 74. His death was announced on October 23 by a publishing house that has collaborated with him for several decades.

Also in early October, it became known about the death of British writer and former politician Jeffrey Archer. The author of numerous bestsellers died at the age of 86 years. During his literary career, he sold more than 300 million books worldwide.