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Hachette Reportedly Canceled Publication of Mia Ballard's Shy Girl After Generative AI Authorship Allegations
- Occurred
- Mar 19, 2026
- Published
- Mar 19, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Hachette Book Group reportedly canceled U.S. publication of Mia Ballard's horror novel Shy Girl and said its Wildfire imprint would not continue publishing the U.K. edition after investigating allegations that parts of the book were generated with AI. Ballard reportedly said she did not personally use AI and suggested an editor of an earlier self-published version may have done so.
Developers
- Large language model developers
- Generative AI developers
Deployers
- Mia Ballard's editor
Harmed parties
- Mia Ballard
- Hachette Book Group
- Novelists
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Incident involves allegations of generative AI authorship in a published novel, leading to cancellation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8