Is there a common consensus on which book was the starting point for AI use?

After a loss of focus, I recently felt like returning to Choices and catching up with stories that would interest me, maybe even invest in VIP while doing so. Then I saw the AI generated covers for stories that appeared far more like the generic commercial smut that most such apps peddle. With the gaming industry in shambles and devs being laid off left and right, I was especially concerned so I looked up if anything's going on with PB. Then I saw their acquisition by Series Entertainment, the layoffs, and people confirming that the books are using AI pretty blatantly.

I'm so sad and feel a genuine sense of mourning for putting aside the game while it still had a human touch. May be dramatic, but so many other studios whose games I loved exactly because they had a heart and were driven by passion and inclusivity, have been affected by such industry wide issues. Mass layoffs, replacing creatives with AI, and basically stripmining studios until the well's run dry and it's time to collapse the mines (i.e. shut them down).

That said, while I still have gems and ways to not financially support such practices, I'd like to take a look at all the books I missed that still have artistic/creative/human value. But I don't know if I have it in me to keep poking my head into stories and see where noticeable AI use began. So: is there a consensus as to which release was the turning point, so I can look at books released up to that point?

I don't know if assuming that it started immediately with the 2024 acquisition would be correct, I imagine some stories were still getting wrapped up around the time that didn't yet use AI. In that vein, I also don't know if it was a direct shift, or if there were some normal books still released after the first AI book, etc. My hope is that people who have been here the whole time might be able to clarify these things for me.

While I'm tiding myself over with the older stories, I'm also excitedly waiting for Candlelight Games' Project Spellstruck, run by ex-PB devs. I learned of it on this sub while reading up on the AI stuff, but I figured it's worth bringing them up again for awareness. (They have a bsky account btw that they don't link on their site for some reason, in case you also can't stand the stench of Musky boi)