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The Shy Girl AI Scandal Is Way Worse Than You Think
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- The Drey Dossier
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- Apr 14, 2026
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- 1867
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Summary
The Shy Girl AI scandal got so much worse. I traced the story backward from the New York Times and found a sales pipeline, a manuscript nobody can verify, and a consultant who spent five weeks shaping the story without once contacting the author. Mia Ballard got a phone call the day the article ran. The man who brought the scoop to the Times closes his blog post calculating whether the experience was worth it for him. She lost everything. He lost his byline credit.Eight months earlier, the same man had his own book flagged by AI detection and got a personal call from an executive that fixed it over a weekend. Then he put a debut author in the same position and watched.This is Part II.[Read the full story here]:https://thedreydossier.substack.com/Follow me onTikTok: // thedreydossierInstagram: // thedreydossierIndependent journalism only exists if people can actually see it, so if this helped connect some dots, feel free to share it. Thanks for being here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices