Comments on: AI-generated isekai novel that won a literary contest Grand Prize and Reader’s Choice award has its book publication and manga adaptation cancelled

By: Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:50:04 +0000

It probably won the contest because the judge was also AI reading the books with the same algorithm that generated them XD

By: Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:44:58 +0000

I am thoroughly unsurprised that Isekai plots can be successfully replicated by AI.

By: John

John — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:16:17 +0000

No worries. They can just use AI to make their own animated series which will probably be better quality than most the anime slide shows we’ve been getting lately.

By: Gu

Gu — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 06:07:37 +0000

Fuck y’all who supports Ai, Ai can’t feel shit they just copy and write it no feeling into writing it literally all shit

By: Aver

Aver — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:07:38 +0000

It’s pretty sure there was some botting involved to win the contest. This novel has 23 comments. Meanwhile, other novels with comparable readership have hundreds or even thousands of comments.

By: Robert B

Robert B — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:35:18 +0000

How trash were the other novels to lose?

By: Cheeks

Cheeks — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:03:57 +0000

Well idk about the writing, but I can tell you in half a second from looking at the cover image that it was generated with Gemini Flash.

By: Liam

Liam — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:38:24 +0000

Ok now can we cancel the rest of the ai slop

By: Asher

Asher — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:17:26 +0000

are you joking??? ai is so harmful in many ways. It’s stealing jobs from creatives, making people more and more stupid, and destroying the world PHYSICALLY. Ai uses up SO much water and other valuable resources. anyone that uses it or defends it is an idiot. we’re watching the downfall of humanity in real time and NONE of you seem to care.

By: Lyraz

Lyraz — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:37:55 +0000

We are actively failing as a generation if AI is out here winning awards for what should be for someone who ACTUALLY puts their heart into it. Never will I ever pick up anything generated by AI.

By: Zark

Zark — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:36:59 +0000

No matter what all of these hateful people say, AI generated content can have more depth and feelings than some human writers. It’s still being creative in a way also. If people want to hate on AI then they should go hate on cameras, digital drawing tools and assistant, and anything that isn’t straight up ,hand-made crafts.

By: Rushell

Rushell — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:36:33 +0000

Yeah, the apathy towards its encroachment into media spaces is always disheartening. Sad truth is that a lot of people are kind of boring and don’t think about what media they consume beyond putting it in front of their eyes. And thats the main type of person pushing for slop like this.

This is literally just mashing the “cheat power” and “villainess” archetypes of Isekai LN slop together. I’m sure it won because every other entry was just “SAO but what if Kirito was ME” or a Redo of “Redo of Healer”. That or the judges barely read the entries. I mean they had to realize it was AI somehow.

By: SpareMe

SpareMe — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:06:45 +0000

@Randall Lee Martin No one cares about idiotic parroted AI slop supporting nonsense. You know what the difference is? People have INSPIRATION, AI literally just copies They are not the same, so stop trying to make them out to be the same thing. Even a middleschooler should be smart enough to know the difference here. We known you types have a hardon for taking away any artistic integrity from this world, but just because you have zero artistic talent doesn’t mean the world needs to be devoid of it to match you. Imagine thinking that authors using similar ideas isnthe same as AI… what smoothbrain level rhetoric.

Also, AI writing is notoriously sh*t and this award is a farce if they couldn’t tell the difference between a human being and trash AI writing.

By: jari428

jari428 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:49:13 +0000

There is a pretty big difference between a human taking inspiration from works and including them in their art, and a LLM churning out phrases it associated with certain keywords.

No matter how much these AI companies try to dress it up, AI is not capable of feeling or thinking. It’s just doing math. I like to think human creativity is a little more special than that.

By: FanfictionChampion

FanfictionChampion — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:59:29 +0000

What apps or websites do people use to make AI-generated novels? I’ve been trying to figure that out for a minute. I tried ChatGPT and it does really good for chapter one and two, but after that the quality drops, details start getting skipped, and stuff gets left out. I’m not trying to publish anything, it’s just for me.

By: Bubba Hotep

Bubba Hotep — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:41:28 +0000

“We couldn’t tell this Isekai was AI generated.”

And People wonder why so many call Anime generic slop…

By: Lilith

Lilith — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:23:31 +0000

There’s so much content out there that you can’t read it all in your lifetime. We dont need AI to copy other stories for us. We are capable of doing that ourselves. People will say nothing is new, but at one point it was new. If AI takes over there really won’t ever be anything new. There’s no point in polluting creative spaces with generated content. It defeats the purpose of getting people to be creative.

By: Netbug

Netbug — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:53:52 +0000

I mean not surprising since almost every isakai is just the same 20 tropes uncreatively rehashed. It’s like how country was the first music genre to get tricked with an AI singer.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:04:33 +0000

Interesting that they don’t want AI to write a story but use it themselves, that ahouts double standard. If AI helps write it, then AI generated at least a part of it. How is that different from AI writing with the user’s prompts? The AI is still involved with the writing. It’s like saying driving a car with standard gear shift or automatic is two different things. It is still the same.

By: Randall Lee Martin

Randall Lee Martin — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:52:07 +0000

If it is good who cares, for the ones that says AI is copying other stories and writers, guess what, we all do, there are no real new ideas, almost every story has some debt owed to some other story, situation, or idea trust me I have this useless compendium of almost everything I have ever read, watched or heard ever since I was a kid and so many stories borrow from one another some times intentionally and some maybe sometimes subconsciously nothing is really original, logically it makes sense are minds are basically organic computers we actually similar to AI just at a much slower pace.

By: Zyolluax

Zyolluax — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:58:56 +0000

It’s an odd situation. If they work was good enough to win it should still be published. On the obi strip just make sure you label it as AI. But in doing so would lower the reputation of the brand so it makes sense to cancel it.