AI-generated covers flood market, crushing your discoverability rankings
Mass-produced cover art tanks visibility for human designers and indie authors alike.
Original source — reddit.comhttps://www.reddit.com/r/eroticauthors/comments/1wkmorw/visibility_andor_sales_and_page_reads_tanked/
This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Sun, Sep 20 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 42/100 (Headwinds).
Coral Wire selects stories by a Claude-graded relevance score and writes each headline and one-line summary with an Anthropic Claude model from the linked source. Story gathering is not AI: it is a fixed set of feeds and dockets. The linked original is always the authority.
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