Author Have you read Andrew Yahodka? Is it AI slop?

[PracticingGeomancer]

I was clicking throught the "unread posts" column on the right, while I stumbled upon a book share for a book by Andrew Yahodka. I am not familiar with the author, and the book seemed interesting, but two red flags came up: the cover art is clearly AI, and the book was published recently (this/last year).

On a side note: it is sad that it has come to this, but a book being published after 2023-4~ish is now a red flag to me, as I assume AI has been used unless the contrary is proven. What a sad state of affairs, but what can one do?

Back to the topic: I searched on amazon, and this author has a lot of books published between 2025 and 2026. Like several complete series of 5-6-7 books each. I understand this author might have been creating and collecting material for decades before publishing everything at once, but to be honest I assume the books are largely written by AI.

So, to hopefully prove myself wrong, I decided to ask here: has anyone read any of Andrew's books? Am I wrong in assuming they are AI slop through and through?

 

[Morell]

AI cover doesn't automatically mean AI content, but red flag for sure. Have you tried some tool for checking the text if there is high probability to be made by AI. Is the text inconsistent?

Just opened one book randomly. Maybe AI cover, but nice one and the text seems fine. Though the book is barely over 60 pages. If all his books are so short then it makes sense that even as human author he would be able to write them fast enough.

 

[PracticingGeomancer]

AI cover doesn't automatically mean AI content

Now I literally judged a bunch of books by their covers, silly me

Have you tried some tool for checking the text if there is high probability to be made by AI

I haven't, I thought I'd rather ask people on this forum. Not sure I trust those tools' accuracy.

Though the book is barely over 60 pages

I've looked at one serie of his on amazon: 7 books, each book seems to be around ~200 pages.

I want to point out I have nothing against Andrew, I'm just a bit suspicious of the incredible amount of material published in such a short period of time. Unluckily this is to a certain degree a sign of the times, when AI can spew out large amounts of text that looks as it makes sense on the surface.

I might just invest the time to read one or two of Andrew's books and try them out in practice to see what comes out.

 

[Morell]

I might just invest the time to read one or two of Andrew's books and try them out in practice to see what comes out.

Good idea. Be sure to tell, what kind of book it turns out to be in the end. Even if it were bad book, reading bad books is an experience too, investment to master the skill to see fast which book is good or bad.