The Spanish-language literary world is facing a new crisis — one other fields have been dealing with for years: the mass arrival of AI and how to live with it. EL PAÍS revealed on Friday that Pangram, one of the most highly regarded detectors, found that 99% of the novel Donde el agua trabaja (Where Water Works), by Peruvian writer David Silva Rojas, was AI-generated text. The manuscript won the inaugural Almadía Ventosa-Arrufat International Short Novel Prize in July 2026, a €20,000 ($22,000) award paid as an advance against royalties.

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Hungarian artist Peter Weiler wanted to test a new platform called RentAHuman: the website’s slogan is “physical labor for AI” and it is designed for artificial intelligence agents to hire people to do jobs. Weiler wanted to test the platform and offered money for a person to hold a sign in a square in downtown Budapest that read in Hungarian and English: “An AI hired me for this job.” Last Thursday someone did that job for two hours for a fee of $70.

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Artificial intelligence is also making its way into the world of books. EL PAÍS examined the use of AI in a sample of 119 popular books published in 2025 and 2026, analyzing titles that appeared on the bestseller lists at Amazon.es and the Spanish bookstore chain Casa del Libro, as well as the winners of a major literary prize.

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