{"id":9857,"date":"2026-04-19T22:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/freida-mcfadden-stands-firm-she-declares-she-never-uses-ai-in-writing-her-thrillers\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:07:09","slug":"freida-mcfadden-stands-firm-she-declares-she-never-uses-ai-in-writing-her-thrillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/freida-mcfadden-stands-firm-she-declares-she-never-uses-ai-in-writing-her-thrillers\/","title":{"rendered":"Freida McFadden Stands Firm: She Declares She Never Uses AI in Writing Her Thrillers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a recent online article sparked a wave of comments accusing her of using artificial intelligence to write her bestselling books, author Freida McFadden took to Facebook to set the record straight. In a candid post dated April 18, she emphatically denied the allegations and reaffirmed her commitment to writing by hand.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-origin-of-the-rumor\">The Origin of the Rumor<\/h2>\n<p>McFadden first learned of the accusations when she stumbled upon a piece that mentioned her name. The comments section was flooded with skeptics who claimed she had admitted to using AI, a claim she has repeatedly denied in interviews and on her own platforms. \u201cI was stunned to see tons of comments from people saying not only that I use AI to write books, but also that I admitted it!\u201d she wrote. \u201cThis is blatantly untrue. I have said multiple times that I do NOT use AI both here and in official interviews, but maybe I\u2019ve been too subtle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her response was straightforward: \u201cI DO NOT USE AI TO WRITE MY BOOKS. I WILL NEVER USE AI TO WRITE MY BOOKS.\u201d She even joked about making her stance more visible\u2014\u201dDo I need a larger font and neon colors? Maybe flashing words? Or is that too 1999?\u201d\u2014highlighting how she feels the message is already clear.<\/\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a recent online article sparked a wave of comments accusing her of using artificial intelligence to write her bestselling books, author Freida McFadden took to Facebook to set the record straight. In a candid post dated April 18, she emphatically denied the allegations and reaffirmed her&#8230;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/influencerswiki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}