#ai writing

[euoniatz]

okay, look, since ai debates keep popping up everywhere, i thought i might as well throw my input into the mix as someone who has used chatgpt and really fucking regrets it.

first off, i understand that people can struggle to produce works (art, writings, etc.) in this society that can at times make you feel like you're only worth something if you're spitting out 5 masterpieces a month. +especially if you're neurodivergent like me.

that's how it started for me - as a tool that could assist me when my adhd paralysed my ability to create when my motivation was finally there. i wanted structure, and thought that ai could help me outline my works so i could just get straight to writing next time.

but, it never ends there. because at some point it takes over, and you start to compare your own skill to that of a computer. or at least i did. in the beginning it was only outlines, then i wanted to brainstorm ideas - ideas i then "needed help" expanding into scenes i then "needed help" planning, and finally, i needed help writing anything at all.

see the pattern?

the more i used ai as a crutch, the more it took over, and the less i knew. truly, comparing myself to a robot became more paralysing to my writing than my adhd ever could. it crippled my ability to create, and i still find myself wondering "if ai could write this even better than i can, what's the point in me at all?"

i never did and i never will publish anything that ai wrote for me, because all i did was have ideas that i was too insecure to write, which i won't take credit for. i lost my confidence in my writing, and i still have not recovered, months later. writing was already hard, and i managed to make it way fucking harder for myself.

there are no shortcuts to being a good writer.

you might think there are. you might think that ai is helping you. it might feel like it for a really long time. but i promise you - it's not going to last. and you are going to be kicking yourself when the time comes where you are forced to live without that crutch.

it will ruin the potential you already have, set you back ages in your development. it is not worth it.

and to be clear - if your goal is to be able to write 5 novel-length stories a month, you are not going to achieve that by having a robot do it for you. if you, like i did, felt like you have to write to please someone other than yourself i suggest you take a second to find what made you want to write in the first place. that pure motivation and passion is what is going to make you great, not some artificial, soulless computer.

[conindiundrum-writing]

When people ask if it’s okay to use ai to write just a little it really exposes exactly why they even need ask that question. Of course you’re going to look to machine for help writing when you don’t even trust yourself to have the idea.

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[floral-poisons]

kind of wanna reinforce this here. because i’ve seen ai writing become so popular on tik tok.

ai writing is not okay.

it’s literally theft. just like how ai art steals, ai writing steals. it’s using authors’ very real work to generate whatever you type in. and this also needs to be said as well.

writing is a form of art. fanfiction is a form of literature.

seeing this all over my fyp is REALLY discouraging. fanfic itself is already a labor of love and we love it when you interact. but please do not use ai writing for your fanfic needs when this writing literally steals from fanfic authors.

genuinely don’t know if this post will go around because my interactions outside of hcs are shit, but i hope it does.

[animentality]

[charlesoberonn]

[miriammctroi]

This is what AI should be used for in writing:

of course, all info provided by chatgbt should be verified afterwards, but it's easier to have an answer and look up if it's right / wrong than to not have an answer and try to understand anatomy from scratch

[seaglasswrites]

I see a lot of people advocate for the use of AI/AMs in writing as a tool for when writers are stuck; The main selling point for these people seems to be that, when facing writers’ block, a writer can just plug their story into one of these tools and get “help”.

It’s a similar idea to a lot of writing posts I’ve seen on here, complaining about the “in-between” - “I’ve got this wonderful beginning and this heart-wrenching ending, but no idea what to put in the middle! Writing sucks!”

These people don’t seem to realize, though, that without the author figuring that out for themselves, there is no story.

Sure, you can have a basic idea for a plot; Let’s use 1984 as an example: A man lives in a hyper-surveillance society under an authoritarian dictatorship, and rebels against it by joining a secret society that turns out to have been the government all along.

That’s a great plot idea - and it’s sure to do great with both publishers and readers alike! But it’s not 1984. It’s a plot summary of 1984.

If George Orwell had plugged that prompt into ChatGPT and asked it to do the rest for him, we would probably still have Winston Smith (or someone like him), but we might not have Julia, or O’Brien, or the scene with the rats, or the melancholy ending at the café, or a whole host of other important characters and plot points.

Why? Because here’s the thing - Orwell came up with those ideas because he actually thought about the premise he had imagined. What would people act like in such a society? What kind of torture methods would their government use?

Even the ending scene where Winston sits at the café can have a million different things said about it when it comes to Orwell’s thought process when he wrote it. What would this government do with its victims once they were done torturing them? How would they make a public example of the power it had, without actively televising said torture? How would “normal” citizens treat these victims? What would their short remaining lives be like?

If you put the basic details into ChatGPT, though - “dystopian government, surveillance, torture, betrayal” - It wouldn’t give you the same result.

Every decision you see in a book, movie, or other piece of media that you love is there because the author got stumped at one point and had to think their way out of it.

Ask any famous author about their writing process. Read or watch any interview. There will always be a point where they had no idea where to take the story next, and some of the parts about those stories that are the best are the ones that came about from writer’s block.

Writing is all about getting stumped, and confused, and not knowing where to go next. It’s okay to not always know what you’re doing. But you do actually have to think your way out of it. Otherwise, you’re not writing.

[whumpacabra]

I don’t have a posted DNI for a few reasons but in this case I’ll be crystal clear:

I do not want people who use AI in their whump writing (generating scenarios, generating story text, etc.) to follow me or interact with my posts. I also do not consent to any of my writing, posts, or reblogs being used as inputs or data for AI.

[aldruiel-scribbles]

This morning I was reading a fanfic (ao3) and everything was fine until in the comment section the author answered a question about the writing AI she was using. I felt such visceral disgust at that. I dropped the story like it was acid.

To those that use AI. How dare you? How dare you to have the audacity of using a program that steals people's creativity? How dare you feed it, taking that which was granted with love and passion and then transform it into a soulless program? How dare you bend yourself to these corporations that only seek to exploits us further?

I would 100% prefer to read a fic that has mistakes but that has care into every word and a person behind it with immense love for the fandom, than to read Shakespeare vomited by a code that it was written by a thousand cunts that wank themselves at a picture of Mark Zuckerberg.

If you're doing mental gymnastics to justify art theft and exploitation, then there's no mistake. You are wrong. Nothing will change that.

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[thearcanarevival]

AI is destroying fandoms

AI is damaging fandoms. I can not be the only one who has noticed the lack of decent fanfictions recently. The overuse of AI art by fans. Worse yet ChatGPT and even everyones fan favorite Character AI has been stealing thousands of original fanfictions from platforms such as AO3 and using them to “feed” the AI. Because again, AI takes from other sources, it can not think for itself. While I do think there is some positives to AI the world seems to have turned more towards the negatives. While at face value, Character AI appears harmless and fun I think it has done far more harm. I think it has led to less people creating original fanfictions, even art. It even encourages fans to not read original works. And I myself am not exempt from Character AI but after not having it for nearly a month I must say I’ve seen a change.

I encourage you to take notice of the AI sludge right now. Make your own work, support other fan’s creations. Down below I have a video linked talking about this issue. This girl is amazing. Do not allow AI to take over fandoms!

[animentality]

[doukeshi-kun]

disclaimer: i dont support AI generated fanfics. just putting my two cents out

unpopular opinion probably but i think it's kinda harmful to excessively dictate what could be an ai-gen writing and what not. sure, there are some instances that could indicate a fic has ai-generated stuff in it but you must remember that these generative AIs use those works to train their system.

i think it's kinda unfair to strike a fic to be AI-gen simply because the writer uses a lot of em-hypen (—) or many metaphors or using a lot of adverbs or hells, maybe the verb+ing doesn't make sense like "brushing lips". a lot of your favourite writers are not English native-speakers. many of us learn it in school and probably that's the highest level. many of us have also only depended on consuming English-language media to learn it. hells, my vocabulary is so shit i used multiple thesaurus for myself.

and sometimes, we are just influenced by those romance books in 2010s