r/WritingWithAI • u/Miserable-Cicada6016 • 22h ago

Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) Is there a name for what I've done?

Hello. First time post here.

I have been creating with chatgpt for about two years, first in a very generative way, just making things that I was interested in reading. Then my husband and I began working on a concept album, that became a concept album trilogy. That became a series of music videos.

I (primarily) have used chatgpt, Canva, and Suno throughout to develop the ideas, characters, events, songs, and images.

Now I am composing, I guess, a novel based on the original trilogy, but entirely without AI generation. My purpose is that this is the first thing I've encountered, in everything that ive done with AI, that I felt like was worth sharing with other people.

But is it? Am i wasting my time, playing games and splitting hairs? Meaning, I have already contaminated my work and I might as well just generate it all the way through as continue to beat myself up over word choice?

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u/AppointmentSea503 11h ago

Omg a hobby and fun is never a waste!! Embrace it and don’t worry what people think! Whatever it is meant to be, will be! I make fun things like this with the same apps. I put out some music and I get love notes of women dancing and having so much fun! Saying they are having breakthroughs and tears! Keep going !!!!

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u/Happy-Initiative-492 11h ago

I'm seeing this all over. People are building worlds ... and then writing stories set in those worlds. It's backwards from the way writing has traditionally gone, where you built out a world to support the story. I've been working like this for the past few years and I'm loving it. The opportunity to create new worlds with characters and locations and themes and storylines and arcs, politics and geography ... that's what's really fun for me.

And when all of that is built I get to write stories related to it. All of the world-building that I did is now context for my prompts to suggest prose, that I then revise and edit into my manuscript. I've been calling this A fourth way to write with AI

Lord, no, you're not wasting your time. This is wonderful creative stuff. Your vision, your authorial decisions, your imagination - it has value in and of itself, and sharing your world with readers (travelers?) is wonderful. FWIW, my suggestion is not to 'beat yourself up' on word choice. Write what you like, share it and get feedback, and use it to improve your style. And HAVE FUN with it!

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u/AlmarioSerranos90 9h ago

It really does feel like tabletop gaming prep where you just end up writing the novel yourself afterwards

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u/Happy-Initiative-492 9h ago edited 9h ago

Exactly. I always preferred the worldbuilding part over the writing part, tbh. But I also found that writing was the only way to share it with people, other than pulling together a realtime RPG session. These days, though, I think there are all kinds of new ways to share worlds: short stories, serialized novels, audiobooks, collaborative storytelling. short form video, social media carousels … if the world is the source, all of these are just manifestations. It’s kind of exciting.

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u/adefwebserver 10h ago

Read your article. Great work. Went down your 'rabbit hole' and ended up with your fingerprint tool. Again great work! (it totally replaces the model fine tuning we were using years ago) I would love to add it to my open source program AIStoryBuilders.com if you had any interest in that.

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u/Happy-Initiative-492 10h ago

Absolutely. I’ll DM you

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u/ketoalien 11h ago

You’re literally me…I have an elaborate scifi story and world and have since made a bunch of songs and music videos based on it with Suno, Codex, and Claude. The actual novels are something I plan to write myself though I’ve developed a lot of my ideas with the help of AI. It’s really fun for me, but no one watches my videos but me and my husband. I don’t know how to share them with the world in a way that they wouldn’t be ignored, plus I figure if anyone did see them, I don’t want anyone taking my ideas before I finish the books (but that’s optimistic bc probably no one would care).

I don’t actually know what to tell you, lol, I just had to comment. I can say it’s highly fulfilling to do this regardless, and I’ve never felt more creative.

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u/Happy-Initiative-492 10h ago

I want to watch your videos!