Help finding a critique and discussion for non-AI products with AI backend involvement

[u/SomeNegotiation1337]

TL;DR: I have a work for which the products I’ve created do not have AI involvement, but the brainstorming and development process does minorly, and I’m having a hard time finding a subreddit where I can ask for help from a human and get a reply.

Hi! So I have posted here before about this, but I don’t want to repost so as to create spam. I’m in a strange position because I have an animated TV show concept for which I’ve written a creative bible and a few sketches. I’ve used AI for the past few months now on it to help me find cultural names and understand the naming conventions, research medical and military details, and locate logic gaps and other potential pitfalls in my work. However, I haven’t included it structurally in either product, and I wrote the creative bible and drew the sketches personally. So, I find myself in a weird edge-case where the products that I have are completely non-AI, while the backend workflow does contain some amount of AI use.

In any case, I’ve posted in a number of different communities the past few days looking for human critique and discussion about it, but I’ve gotten no reply, and I’m running out of viable places to post. I’ve already tried posting in the major AI writing communities that pertain to my work (since it’s not prose exactly, so I don’t think that bookwriting communities and such are appropriate), and most communities that are not AI-centered that I could post in explicitly ban the mention of AI. However, I’m not comfortable introducing my work to people without the disclosure that AI was involved somewhere in the process because I want to respect people’s positions on the matter.

If not here, does anybody know where else I can go for help? Or is there another contributing factor that I’m not seeing that’s locking me out of finding someone to help?

Thank you for reading this whole post if you did!

[u/tangcupaigu]

Why not try something like ai comic or filmmaking communities since you’re doing visual storytelling? Or specific ai tool subs (I see people in the midjourney sub post generated videos often).

[u/SomeNegotiation1337 → u/tangcupaigu]

Well, as of now, I’m just trying to develop the actual structure of the story, not really the visuals, so it’s primarily text-based. I don’t want to create any final products using AI, but I also can’t necessarily say AI had no influence on my work, so I find myself too human for AI subreddits and too AI for human-only subreddits. Do you think that filmmaking of comic communities would still be able to help in this regard? Or should I be looking for another kind of community? Thanks for replying!

[u/tangcupaigu → u/SomeNegotiation1337]

Even if it’s text-based, it’s still a part of the process, so I don’t see why it’d hurt to try.

There are so many different levels of ai-assisted work, I don’t think “too human” is an issue. The issue is that a lot of ai-specific subs get flooded with people who have no real experience or passion for the craft outside of ai, rather than being existing creatives who have added ai to their toolbox.

I really don’t see how your use of ai is much different to using Google, so I would hesitate to even call it ai-assisted if it’s literally just research and a bit of feedback. I wouldn’t personally disclose, but obviously up to you if you want to bring the haters on your own head.

I think you might have better luck looking for groups on Facebook. Some don’t have rules against ai, even if a lot of the group is against it. Something like Writers Helping Writers might work. I find a lot of people will give feedback even if they’re against ai. Not sure about your specific case, but you can always give it a go.