Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns | TechCrunch

In Brief Posted: 12:30 PM PDT · March 21, 2026 Image Credits: Benjamin White (opens in a new window) / Flickr (opens in a new window) under a CC BY-SA 2. 0 (opens in a new window) license. Anthony Ha Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing a novel called “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the.