Authors often think about a paid review in terms of immediate use: a quote for a website, an Amazon editorial review, a credibility boost in outreach. But those benefits only hold if the review stands up when someone looks closer.
This breakdown of the case against AI-written IndieReader reviews gets at the real issue. The problem is not just that AI was allegedly used. It is that the service appears not to have caught it before publication.
That gap in quality control changes the value of every review the outlet sells. Once authors know that, they have to price the risk in too.