“Sindo Hane” has published more than 100 novels since April 2025

This content-farming model has been around for a long time, only now it’s AI powered.


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Thad McIlroy

For the heck of it, I bought (for free) When the Village Clock Lied, by Sindo Hane. I then ran the prologue through 3 AI detectors (Pangram, GPTZero and ZeroGPT). The results:

  • Pangram “We are strongly confident that the document contains AI-generated writing (99.9%).”
  • GPTZero: “We are highly confident this text was AI generated (100%).”
  • ZeroGPT: “Your Text is AI/GPT Generated (96.64%).”

I don’t trust these detectors when their scores are +/- 70%, but three different findings near 100% is uncontestable.

There’s no point in raising this with customer service… and everyone else working for Amazon is anonymous. I suppose I can try PR.