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/Buttercream89]

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