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I have to say that a lot of the samples used to say AI looked like just really bad writing to me. The concept is

Shy Girl by Mia Ballard follows Gia, a depressed woman with OCD, who meets a wealthy man named Nathan on a sugar daddy website. In exchange for erasing her debts, she agrees to live as his pet, leading to a disturbing transformation as she becomes increasingly animalistic while trapped in captivity.

And I can see that it would hit all the TikTok sales points. But this editor gives a good analysis of how this affects writers.

 
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