If you’re a romance novelist, you can hang up your velvet pen and your 50 shades of provocative synonyms right now — you’re being replaced. By who? Well, robots of course. We always knew it would come down to this. You would think the first-ever novel written by a robot would be a work of science fiction, but no. Too obvious. A touching drama? Nah. Too far-fetched.

But why romance and why now? At this point in time, you might already be familiar with “robot-written literature,” a phenomenon that has taken the internet by storm. If not, all you really need to know is that comedians like Keaton Patti have been releasing outrageous literary works they claim are the result of forcing bots to read and/or watch television excessively (via Thrillist). And while these pieces are full of laugh-worthy gems like “We see the pasta nachos. They are warm and defeated”, the sentences are just as fake as they are hilarious.

Enter Google, who decided that real robots would most likely prefer steamy romantic literature to any other alternative. Per HuffPost, Andrew Dai, a software engineer and spokesperson for Google, claims that when it comes to romance literature, “the genre’s formulaic approach to storytelling makes it ideal for machine learning.”

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