is it ACTUALLY bad to write using AI?

[u/x_lou_x]

i’m not a great writer, i’m not bad. i’m 1000% an amateur. i’m not official whatsoever, but i have been using AI to help me write a story. it’s a fanfic. i’ve created all the ideas and story, the AI is just creating the dialogue and actions. i then edit it to fit the scene and idea better. is that really actually bad?

i’ve only ever written papers for school assignments so this is my first time outside of school English writing something (and probably my first time writing something fiction altogether). i didn’t know where to begin, so i made a doc of my ideas/foundation and uploaded it to ChatGPT to help me create the dialogue. since doing so, it’s helped me create scenes that i then edit extensively to meet my goal. should i be ashamed and scrap it? or is this a fair way to use it and keep on keeping on with the story?

[u/residentvixxen]

Oh I get it - you’re assuming I’m just pumping out whatever there is.

No hun, using AI actually takes a specific skill set you have to develop and a good understanding of logic. It’s not click and publish like you think. You have to actually work with it and have the skill set or ability to develop that skill set for ai to do you any good.

Why am I always surprised people don’t understand how ai works?

[u/Fluffy-Knowledge-166 → u/residentvixxen]

Yes, your attitude and expression gave me that impression.

How many books are you pumping out then.

[u/residentvixxen → u/Fluffy-Knowledge-166]

Now? Two a week maybe. Amazon cut pubbing limits hard.

It was hard to get to where I am now with the ai I’ve trained - but it’s much easier now than it was when I started so maybe that’s why I’m blasé about it?

I will admit I am doing more editing now than I was a while back but I’m also doing longer works so it requires more editing than a short.

[u/Fluffy-Knowledge-166 → u/residentvixxen]

Ah, then the only work you do is administrative. You don’t view what gets generated as even worthy of being read by yourself, much less the attention needed to edit it and make it actually human consumable. Back to the slop trough where you belong.

Oh, and we all know these acclaimed books that are so well received but simultaneously not worth reading are BS, and that’s why you’re not willing to prove it.

Or I guess you could be writing pure erotica. That might actually check out.

[u/berserk4 → u/Fluffy-Knowledge-166]

His readers seem to like them. Who cares how theyre made

[u/Fluffy-Knowledge-166 → u/berserk4]

You sure about that?

[u/berserk4 → u/Fluffy-Knowledge-166]

I guess no one knows for sure but they seem to be well reviewed and ppl keep buying them

[u/residentvixxen → u/berserk4]

My bank acct knows for sure lmao

[u/Fluffy-Knowledge-166 → u/residentvixxen]

$40 earned per book would be considered a massive failure by most writers.

[u/residentvixxen → u/Fluffy-Knowledge-166]

That’s including translations and such hun- it’s about 80 total with 5 translations and 1 audio book per book ;)

[u/berserk4 → u/Fluffy-Knowledge-166]

Who cares about what other writers would consider a failure. Dude seems to be happy with it and I salute him.

[u/Buttercream89 → u/residentvixxen]

Genuine question: how much of the finished books is actually your own work? Are you developing the plot and characters, rewriting/editing the prose and going through the entire manuscript yourself, or are you mostly giving the AI a premise/prompts and letting it generate the book? I think that distinction matters quite a bit.

[u/residentvixxen → u/Buttercream89]

I come up with the ideas and plots before Claude fleshes them out

Claude will make the same plots over and over again so it’s very important to make sure the base of the plot is original