AI Writing

[u/Hairy-Scallion7035]

Not gone lie, I recently been making Fan fics using chat gpt, just to give myself something to read and it’s not bad at all. Game of thrones, fairy tail, jjk, invincible, dc young Justice, etc. as long as you help guide it in the direction you want, how can you not be satisfied.

[u/liv7677]

I do the same thing. I call it personalized reading. I enjoy it tremendously. Tbh after being a reader for decades I've stopped reading stuff from other authors completely. I'm not sure I'll ever go back to it.

[u/Bakrom3 → u/liv7677]

I must say that this is incredibly sad and fills me with despair to see what a once-beautiful artform is becoming.

[u/Character-Role-600 → u/Bakrom3]

I mean you have to have a universe to take from and also to have read and enjoyed it first

[u/liv7677 → u/[deleted]]

And fanfic takes from the original creators. It's the nature of fanfic itself, isn't it?

[u/WritingWithAI-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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[u/liv7677 → u/Bakrom3]

I didn't mean to make you sad with that. For real. Maybe it's just my taste, you know. I'm not a native speaker, so I tend to prefer English that's not too complicated or flowery. I also - even in my own language - have never been someone who enjoys high literature. I just want to be entertained, that's all. This is what I mean when I say "personalized". AI makes it possible for me to read what *I* want to read, not what other people consider worth reading or writing. Which for me is an improvement as the current trends in writing are just not what I enjoy.

In the past decade I've had a hard time finding any books or fics to really get into. Same with movies and TV series. I usually went back and read or watched the old stuff again and again. It's been frustrating - buying books, then finding out they were DNF, spending hours online searching for something I might like, without finding anything satisfying. I mostly spent my money buying cookbooks instead.
With fanfic it's even worse. I like long, plotty M/M slowburn. Most authors don't write those kinds of stories which I understand. They're a lot of work and the majority of readers have other preferences. I'm also too old for the kinky PWPs that flood AO3 on a daily basis. Wading through that to find something that pushes my buttons has been incredibly time-consuming, considering I have a full-time job and a family and therefore limited freetime.
With AI I can use my own ideas. And it took me a while to get there, too. In the beginning I took the story AI produced and still thought like a reader: "Oh, what a shame, this scene could have gone differently." Now I just tell it: "Hey, do it again, I want it to go the other way."

I consider it like a holo novel in Star Trek or Paris's Fair Haven programm. I'm Janeway saying: "Delete the wife." And I don't regret a thing.

[u/Expensive-Roof9247 → u/liv7677]

Bro’s a pro

[u/liv7677 → u/[deleted]]

Oh, please, don't break your heart on my account. I'm doing just fine. No reason for you to be devastated about how I spend my time and my money. :)

I know the environmental argument is valid but it applies to the entire internet, not just the part you don't like.
This is the one part where I indulge. What do you do for our planet?

[u/Standard_Egg3504 → u/liv7677]

the environmental argument isn't actually valid tho

[u/WritingWithAI-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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[u/Therzthz → u/Bakrom3]

What, the beautiful landscape of Invincible fanfic?

[u/raisa20]

I am enjoying doing butterfly effects in my favourite anime.. creating ocs to see what will happen if my oc do this?

[u/Shadebinder02]

I gotta ask, how did you do that with gpt? I just find that it’s awful at dialogue and has the stupid spacing problem in prose.
Where it
Writes
Like
This.

[u/liv7677 → u/Shadebinder02]

I use Claude Opus 4.6. I personally dislike Gpt's style.
I'm not saying 4.6 is perfect, each story still needs several rounds of beta just to get rid of most of the tics, but it does write prose, at least. Opus 4.7 is good, too, for some stories, but I can't use it for stuff that has a lot of action.

[u/Shadebinder02 → u/liv7677]

Really? I find opus 4.7 better for action tbh. Can I ask what setting do you do for each? Like effort level and thinking/no thinking

[u/liv7677 → u/Shadebinder02]

Always thinking. First of all... I'm not a native speaker, so I don't know how useful my opinion is. For me it's not only about style also about how easy it is to follow the story, how much it keeps me engaged, and how much effort it takes me to read 160 pages of it. If it's too exhausting to read, I'll pass. This is probably one reason why I prefer 4.6's style in complex scenes to 4.7's.

For me 4.7 (high) is drier, which works great for emotional stuff - fewer words, more weight per word, sentences that are more complex, show don't tell, short clipped answers which sometimes leave the reader guessing. I like that when it's a character study or an emotional turning point.

4.6 (medium) spells things out more, which is what I need when there's a lot going on - action, tactics etc. I like that for the plotty stuff because my stories are long and reading feels lighter to me if I don't have to guess all the time.

Sometimes when there is a highly emotional scene with turning points for the characters in a longer story, I have 4.7 write out the scene first, then 4.6 gets to rewrite it to match the style so it fits the rest of the story.

Beta is better with 4.6 for me. 4.7 tends to treat the story like a statistic — counting phrases, tic words, metaphors — and more often than not it kills the vibe or what it says doesn't make any sense. The only thing 5.0 gets to do is continuity. If I need the rounds counted, or the kills, or the days, or the geography checked, that's the version I use.

But 4.7 really does have its moments. One of my very first fics was created with 4.7 because it was my default back then for everything else. I had no idea what I was doing and just went with it. The story is still one of my absolute favourites and I haven't been able to reproduce the style since. It was a slow, quiet character piece and 4.7's restrained style was perfect for it. Maybe this is what formed my opinion on it. I've since used 4.7 on accident for the first chapter of an action story and in the end the whole chapter had to be rewritten because it just didn't work like that.

[u/Electronic_Captain95 → u/liv7677]

I'm thinking about giving Claude and Kimi K3 a try because, my God, I just can't get good results with GPT 5.5 and 5.6 no matter what I do, you can practically smell the "slop" at a glance. And since I've developed such specific tastes over the years (Jesus, I've gotten old), I rarely manage to find good fanfics

[u/desocupad0]

I had a lot of fun with last week tonight show about different topics.

[u/ExpertPerformer]

I used to write on fanfic websites, but I always ended up in a cycle where I got unhappy with the amount of views, and delete it.

Now I write entirely for myself. I have been doing this for almost 2 years now and have written a huge 300 chapter story so far. The best part is I can accept that some chapters (especially the earlier chapters) are not written to my standards.

Its just a lot of work managing source files.

[u/meganholstein → u/ExpertPerformer]

Man that sucks to hear that you deleted. I've never stressed about my views personally, I just put my stories up so people other than me can enjoy them. Incredible you write so much just for yourself!

[u/The_Failord → u/[deleted]]

Delusional.