When Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI developed by startup Stability AI, was open sourced earlier this year, it didn't take long for the internet to wield it for porn-creating purposes.

For the past few months, Elle Simpson-Edin, a scientist by day, has been working with her wife on a novel, due out late this year, that she describes as a “grimdark queer science fantasy.” Happily for ...