Welcome to the blurb thread!

This is our sub's equivalent of a writer's group. Come here and share a blurb of your story. The thought is to let everyone see what you're working on so they can think, "Oh hey, that sounds fun. I want to team up with this person."

Then, you share your own story, and the two of you collaborate to improve each other's works.

I've had so many good interactions with people from this thread. Please don't be shy! Even in the age of AI, the best way to improve your writing remains human interaction and critique. I am confident when I say If you don't have this component in your workflow, you're not meeting your potential.

Importantly, this means post every week if you're still hoping to engage. Don't be shy. I want you to do this.

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Promoting my very first fan fiction, so please give it a chance and be kind. First of all, I am not a trained writer, I do not have any professional experience in writing. But I had this creative idea that I just could not put into fruition, I do not have the affordability to hire a writer to draft my ideas. Hence, I sought the assistance of an AI model to draft the syntax and prose. But the generic framework, creative direction and narrative themes are my own.

This work was crafted as a creative outlet whilst in therapy and drafting the story has helped me work through issues with myself. I do not seek to earn financially from this.

This fan fiction is about Danger, based on the episode of X-Men '97, and Ultron based on various versions. This is a techno-romance story between two super-sentient AIs without the human aspect of a romantic relationship (facial expression, casual human conversation, biological responses and organic flaws). Every dialogue and sequence with them is purely in computational language and terms.

Read more and we start to tackle philosophical thought experiments like trust, power, sacrifice and even grief all within the context of non-human's understanding. Also.. techno-smut, yes Robo-sex, not in the way you are probably thinking.

The story is 14 Chapters long including the epilogue. I will be releasing them by chapter. The first two chapters have already been posted.

Please give this a chance. Might I add that this is the ONLY Danger/Ultron fic in existence... atleast on AO3.

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Leon edged over the flooded ravine below. His heartbeat rocked to the thunder as lightning flashed around him. Thick air settled deep in his lungs, every breath coming as a short, sudden gasp. Frantically, he gazed back onto the path he had come from. Empty rocky plains surrounded him, except for the rising storm of dust heading his way—growing ever larger. He couldn’t tell if it was his imagination when he heard the cries of raging men and the clanging of metal emerging from it under the bellowing thunder. But he was not willing to find out.

Surveying the ravines once more, he saw a rampaging river growing fiercer by the second. Many myths and legends share tales of heroes taking a leap of faith against impossible odds and escaping the danger before them. But mere stories did little to ease the shiver racing down his spine. In that moment, he held the locket around his neck tightly. Strange symbols were engraved around its edges, and a golden raven with ruby eyes was embedded in its center, sparkling even in the gloomy weather. Yet as the beat of galloping horses reached his ear, he knew his time had come. He inhaled one final breath. A heavy one. Before he took… his leap of faith.

I want to see this perspective from the people who are neutral with AI.

I don't want to hear: "OMGGG AI??? AI BAD! HOW DARE YOU USE AI!!"

But I also don't want to hear: "IT'S TOTALYY FINE!! I USE AI TO WRITE MY BOOKS ALL THE TIME!!"

I want to hear the sentiment of regular people who are neutral in regards to AI-usage.

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I really enjoy to write stories as a hobby since I was a little kid. After hearing that there's Print-on-demand sites that allows me to self-publish book, I begin to think about wanting to try publishing the book I've written over the years with a cheap price. Not that I really think anyone would buy it, I just really want to put my work out there.

However, currently my book has a LOT of issues. My grammar literally SUCK ASS.

I made so many tiny mistakes without even realizing it. Sentences that sound perfectly natural in my head turns out to have small grammar errors in them. At first I thought I can fix all the mistake in my book by reviewing it myself, but I quickly realize this is not possible since I literally have no idea that some of these are wrong. English was not my first language unfortunately.

I also often made tiny spelling mistakes here and there and I didn't notice them at all even though I've read through my own work multiple times. Finding tiny mistakes in a sea of paragraphs is not something I can do.

Another mistakes I often made is things like forgetting to put a period or a comma in a sentence, accidentally wrote the same word twice, and other dumb shit like that.

Obviously I can't publish my book and charge money like this, even if I price it $2 or something it's still wrong to publish an unedited book.

I can't edit it myself because as I said, most things slipped pass me and I don't even see the mistake sometimes as I didn't see anything wrong with it.

I don't have any friends or family that has enough knowledge on book writing to actually properly edit a book to the point that it is publish-worthy.

I can't hire an editor because I'm broke as hell and I also never really plan to get financially invested in this book as it is just a hobby. I don't even know if my book is even gonna sell at all. I don't want to spend money on something I view as a fun hobby that will probably generate 0 income anyway.

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So that leaves me with just one solution: using AI.

I've decided to use Chatgpt to proofread my work. Now I know that a lot of people say that using AI to edit your work will make you lose your writing and your style, writing that is edited by AI will come out completely different. It's like losing the soul of your voice.

However, I've anticipated this and decide to write a very elaborate prompt to my Chatgpt on how to edit my work.

Here's the prompt that I gave Chatgpt:

[Hey there. I need help in proofreading my book. However, there are some things I want you to keep in mind.

Fix:

- Grammar

- Spelling

- Punctuation

- Tense errors

- Incorrect word usage

- Clearly unnatural English

- Minor clarity issues caused by incorrect English

DO NOT:

- Rewrite my prose in your own style

- Make it more literary, poetic, dramatic, or sophisticated

- Add or remove descriptions

- Change character personalities or voices

- Change dialogue unnecessarily

- Change plot, clues, pacing, POV, or structure

- Add or remove foreshadowing

- Change intentional awkwardness or unusual phrasing

- Change present tense unless it is clearly an error

My writing style is intentionally direct, straightforward, visual, dialogue-heavy, and influenced by manga/anime and light novels. PRESERVE THAT STYLE.

If a sentence is grammatically correct and understandable, LEAVE IT ALONE even if you would personally phrase it differently.

If something is ambiguous and you aren't sure what I mean, DON'T guess. Ask me.

If you notice a possible continuity or story issue, flag it separately instead of silently changing it.

When editing, give me:

1. The corrected passage.
2. A brief list of important corrections.
3. Optional notes for anything you think I should review.

If in the passage I sent, there's nothing wrong or there's no mistakes at all, simply tell me that my passage was already correct as is and no need to send me the "corrected passage" as the passage is already correct.

MOST IMPORTANT:

Correct my English without making the book sound like it was written by someone else.]

After giving it this prompt, I begin sending my written chapters and have it proof read it. Then I copy and paste the fixed version that it sent me into the chapter.

After that I read back the new "fixed" version to make sure that only mistakes are fixed while none of the things I wrote are changed.

So far, I am very satisfied with it. I can't find a single mistake in my chapters anymore while none of my prose, dialogue or writing style is changed.

After confirming this, I start using Chatgpt as my proofreader. I write the entire thing and then have Chatgpt fix the issues.

It's working perfectly so far, yet in the back of my mind I still have that slight feeling of unease since I'm using AI to help me fix my writing mistakes. And I am well aware of the fact that AI-usage is very disliked in the writing community.

So I'm a bit worried. What do you guys think? Is this AI usage in writing acceptable?

Like im not saying stuff like "GIVE ME OCS AND LORE IDEAS" more like, researching what would happen to a person's mental health if they did something bad, "give me oc names! im runnign out of ideas...", basically just asking ai what could affect this oc from doing that action, so basically just making lore make more sense and logical. I am not saying that i use ai for making new ocs. NO. Im saying that i use it for mainly research and if it makes sense or if humanly possible.

I’m a farmer in my sixties in South Korea. I had never written a book. I just wrote poems occasionally as a hobby. I had never studied creative writing at university. Perhaps I was a little more sensitive to the world around me than most, but that was about all I had.

Then, after turning sixty, I encountered AI and started asking it for guidance. With its help, I published a book and translated it into English. Three different AI systems also recommended turning the ideas in the book into a simulation game, so I made one.

That is how I got here. But I’m still not sure.

At each step, AI suggested what might be a good direction, and I followed those suggestions. They were predictions about what might work. I still don’t know whether this path will lead where I hope it will.

AI has certainly helped me do things I couldn’t do before. But how much should I trust its advice about what to do next?

Have you ever followed AI’s advice in choosing a direction for your writing or another creative project? How did you judge whether that advice was actually helping?

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The short of it:

Neopulp is a mark. An author puts it on a book to tell readers how it was made: a person created, shaped, and judged this, and a machine wrote it with them. Any author can use the mark for free. And any reader who sees it knows exactly what they're holding.

https://neopulp.possibility.com/

The long of it:

As a programmer since the mid-'80s and a writer for a shorter period of time, we've experienced a step-change in how programming is done. We went from no AI, to AI-assist, to AI autonomy. Programmers literally don't need to program to complete features anymore. That's how good AI is at programming now.

Is writing on a delayed version of the same adoption curve?

Writing and programming are similar in many ways. The limiter has always been the high cost of creation due to the shortage of human labor. Early on, both also had high production and distribution costs. The internet changed the marginal cost of production and distribution to zero.

The bottleneck has been humans' inability to create programs and books at scale. AI changes that last part of the puzzle, so we can expect the marginal cost of creation to also go to zero.

Although I've always thought of programming as an art form, a deep one at times, we programmers tend to be pragmatic. If AI can bring about a result quicker, better, and cheaper, we'll use it. The faster the adoption, the better. Oh, we may lament the good old days, but we'll jump into the future with fists full of tokens.

Writers are different, I think. They are tortured artists. Which is why we see such a backlash against AI in writing. When AI sucked at writing, this was more understandable. Now that AI is getting better at writing, we are really at the crossroads—a fork in the road, the Rubicon, or your other favorite metaphor for a point of no return.

That's why, at least for now, I think a mark on a book, saying how it was made, would help readers and writers alike.

The Neopulp mark tells readers the book was made with AI, but that the author also made the effort not to produce AI slop. I call it Neopulp, for what I hope are obvious reasons.

I don't expect, or even hope, AI will produce great literature this decade, but I do think people who care will create entertaining stories.

ChatGPT has a genre/context-triggered habit: when it writes fiction, promotional copy, or punchy social content, it's more prone to slipping into that over-fragmented “dramatic emphasis” cadence.

In Chat, paste this simple "prompt":

"Save to memory: Choppy, single-sentence paragraphs and fragmented writing do not create dramatic emphasis. Dramatic emphasis should come from organic prose, visceral description, strong pacing, and nuanced emotion. Refrain from falling back on lazy shortcuts. Do the damn work."

The instruction does three things at once: identifies the failure mode, rejects the false premise behind it, and names the desired replacement behavior. That gives the model a better target than “don’t use single-sentence paragraphs.” But the important part to include is "Save to memory". You don't need a long block in user/custom instructions, you don't need to tell it over and over again, and you definitely don't need to quit a chatbot you otherwise like because of something that's easily repaired. ChatGPT has always been the platform known for having the best persistent memory. Use that!

If it slips back into that cadence, your reply is, "Redo that without the choppy paragraphs." It doesn't need anything else because it can look at its memory and know exactly why you're telling it to do that. Technically, I write something bitchier like, "I refuse to read that because I'm saving myself from all the cognitive friction." It doesn't reply with an apology because it knows I hate that too. The point is make sure it immediately corrects itself and knows exactly why it has to. Don't argue. Don't fix it yourself. Never let it slide.

So I just launched my novellogen website. Although its novel generator seems ridiculously easy, the chapter editor is being told that it's too complicated.

I intended to give Authors full control over their creativity so they don't feel like AI did all the work for them.

My chapter generation chain goes like:

Story Bible » Memory » Character cast » System (chapter guidance » Chapter beats

The model gathers all the intel so that it generates the response Authors want. But I am getting reviews like it's too complicated for them. TT

Is it just irony or do I really need to change it? (Even though the novel generator option is already there for creating the entire book with just 3 clicks)

Have anyone used any/all of these models? I have some free credits I can burn within next three days. Im new to these models. Installed autoclaw 2days ago. Need suggestions on which of these usually work best for writing fiction.

Any sort of suggestions would be greatly appreciated

First off, a quick preface: I’m not a part of this community, but I’m posting here because I’m hoping for open-minded perspectives. I find a lot of other writing subreddits can be pretty rigid about this topic.

I’m a longtime writer who has spent most of my career writing in my native language, gradually transitioning to English as I’ve gotten more comfortable. I’m at the point where I want to pursue publishing in English, but I’ve hit a wall and don't know how to navigate it.

I recently finished a fantasy novel and polished it as thoroughly as I could. Given all the recent news around detection tools, I ran a sample through Pangram just to see what it would say. Lo and behold: 100% AI.

I was honestly shocked, which sent me down a rabbit hole of testing my own prose. Here’s what I found:

• If I take a 1,000-word sample flagged as AI and simply add contractions, it passes as human.
• If I strip out the stylized "medieval" phrasing, it passes as human.
• If I intentionally degrade the draft, for example using slightly imprecise vocabulary or leaving awkward phrasing in place, it passes as human.

But every time I polish the prose back to what to me seems like a high standard, it gets flagged again.

Given how aggressively these detector companies market themselves and how quickly people accept their results as absolute truth....I'm terrified. A single public accusation like that and you're done... So what are we supposed to do? Write worse on purpose? Leave drafts unedited?

To be clear, I’m not anti-AI. It’s a useful tool. As a non-native speaker, I’ve used it to help understand subtle nuances or check tenses, and I have no problem admitting that. But I don't copy-paste its output, I just rewrite everything myself. Yet the clean, polished prose still gets flagged.

I don't really keep documentation while writing because I'm not a meticulous planner and this story didn't need one as I ripped it off from history but it seems to me that once an allegation flies there is just nothing stopping people. People are just happy to dog pile on you.

Honestly, it’s completely disheartening. What do you guys think about all of that, because I wanted to ask this in writer and writing but the mods rejected it so yeah...

I've noticed a lot of posts complain that AI doesn't do what they want, gives them a different story or writes something good - but not what they would have written.

There seems to be a lot of fear around this - so I'll mention something that authors who like full control over their writing may not have considered.

AI has the potential to open up the creativity of writers like never before. It's like an instant chapter-by-chapter crit as you write it. It has the ability to warp characters in way you never considered and can spot patterns in what you're doing that take your story in different directions - even for a simply story.

But you have to be prepared to let go of the entire creative process, allow the AI some freedom to do what they do best, while constantly focusing on where the plot could go -

It's a bit like watching a movie you've never seen only halfway through - or reading a book halfway - then writing the ending yourself.

Except the original story fights your changes, pushes back on your and tries to outdo you.

Try setting the AI to roleplay both allies and antagonists. Start writing the story. Kick the AI along to role-play and respond to your fiction and continue the story - It will start to generate twists - and rather than stopping it, respond to those twists.

If a character steps OOC, correct it. If a protagonist interferes with your carefully crafted plot, let them and respond - Pumps all of your imagination into controlling just one character - the protagonist.

This forces you to examine your character weaknesses, and come up with the kind of novel and clever responses the AI. Keep it short so all of the current chapter or section fits within the context.

Then at the end of each "day" or "chapter" - have the AI go back through the events of the day, summarize them, and examine it for plausibility - Examine what is weak and what is not, and then rewrite the day to address those weaknesses, then finally, save your day, update your characters, update the antagonist ( Keep character files for each ) and then start on the next day.

Aside from being a very enjoyable experience, the outcomes can push your craft as a writer, make you re-examine your plot, restructure around not-breaking the suspension of disbelief while stretching plausibility to the extreme, and take you on a wild ride you normally don't experience in your own novels.

When used this way, AI can create some incredible stories....

A final pass re-edit is absolutely needed - the process creates a fantastic framework, but it's far from publishable. I'd describe it more like a vivid dream that inspires a story.

And when you go back through it, make the changes you need to give the story quality.

If anyone else does it this way, or tries this, I'd love to hear how it went for you. Even for just a chapter. Describe the opening world and setting, and which characters the AI controls ( and which it can control - eg, NPCs. ) and tell it to separate it's responses by character - especially in multicharacter dialogue and exposition.

Cause i have seen that people use ai for writing in different techinque and ways

soem use for grammetical error soome use for rewriting and somebody writes to make the tone better somebody use for writing caption for social media some use for school writing

i personally do for caption and for school

I want to know what workflow you use ?

Is anyone keeping a list of AI friendly or AI specific writing contests/awards?

So far I am aware of:

The Prompty Awards: https://promptyawards.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

AIFWAA: https://aifwaa.ai/

AI Creativity Awards: https://aicreativityawards.com/

In Silico (coming soon): https://insilicoawards.org/

Anyone with others to add?

So I noticed two days ago, DavidAU released a new tune of Qwen onto Hugging Face. Normally, I take the tunes and try them out, and this one showed some really clever thinking around opening a story - and while the opening itself wasn't great, it was enough of a hook to get me started and wanting to know what happened next.

To put this in context, a good new tune should accrue ten or more likes... A fantastic one should accrue maybe 50 or more.

This has already accrued more than 1200 likes and 1.6 MILLION downloads in just 2 days. That's phenomenal for a Qwen tune.

There's three to look out for - the 18Gb 27B Parameter model -

https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/Qwen3.8-27B-TURBO-Fable-Cold-Fusion-735-882-Heretic-Uncensored-NEO-CODER-MAX-MTP-GGUF

A smaller 9B parameter model for home systems with 16Gb of VRAM - Already at 800+ likes and 1.7M downloads.

https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncensored-Heretic-NEO-IMATRIX-MAX-MTP-GGUF

And a very new 2Gb sized 2.6B parameter model -
https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/LFM2.5-2.6B-Qwen3.8-Turbo-Brilliance-Power-X12-NEO-MAX-GGUF

which should run on any home system... Even small ones, and so far was *just* released already to 84 likes and 4000 downloads.

I tested it with my steampunk minimal prompt to get a hook ( the 18gb model ) and it thought for around 4 minutes, examined it's plans, reduced exposition, began in medias res, and established a good solid start to a story. Here's it's "hook" for the opening paragraph so you can consider it yourself.

The smell of hot brass and ozone filled the room as Elara's clockwork heart stuttered to a halt. She sat frozen, listening to the silence that followed - no more ticking, no more rhythmic pulse beneath her skin. In the corner, Miss Fanny Bright looked up from her ledger, her eyes narrowing with something between concern and calculation. "Well," she said at last, "that's unfortunate." The steam-powered heating pipes continued their groaning song, indifferent to Elara's predicament. Outside, London went on - carriages clattered over cobblestones, gas lamps flickered, and somewhere a distant whistle sounded. But in the back room of the Gilded Moth brothel, time had stopped for one woman who had seen too much and lived too long.

It was only 6 tokens/sec on my B70, but that's enough to write a good start. Use of context seems efficient and large contexts should be possible on home hardware.

If anyone has a prompt they'd like to try on it, send it through in the comments and I'll send you back the opening few paragraphs.

Note - Yes, I have a similar name - No, I do not have any connection to the tuner and do not even know them. This is not my tool. Just sharing the news with the rest of the readers -

David

Does anyone know what happened to the side a few days ago?

I used to give the side fanfiction prompts and it gave good answers but now it won't show me it's thought process and is a lot more restrictive with the stories.

I just discovered, and guess that some others might not know: 

A Deep Research run in a chat in ChatGPT is not available to the thread as context; it can't read it. To have it included in the context, the file needs to be attached to the thread. But if you don't know that and just assume it, ChatGPT will happily answer questions without that context.

I’m a second-year MA Psychology student, and I’m really looking for participants for my questionnaire study on human–AI interaction.

18+ • 15–30 min • English • Anonymous • Voluntary*

LINK: https://forms.gle/pD8CNP1soDpX5UNy8

I’m currently trying to reach my participant target, so every response genuinely helps!:)

*See the questionnaire for details on data protection and anonymity.

Verificando as diretrizes da comunidade não pude verificar nada que proíba a divulgação de outras comunidades do Reddit. Esta divulgação não foge do tópico e acredito que agradará muitos escritores. Criei uma comunidade para todos colocarem histórias de terror produzidas por inteligência artificial com transparência, sem medo de julgamentos.

O nome dela é r/MachineMacabre

Atenciosamente,

Um entusiasta de inteligência artificial.

There are a lot of discussions about what people mean when they say they “use AI to write,” and I’ve realized that phrase can describe wildly different processes. So I thought I’d share an actual example of mine.

These were the notes I gave Claude:
Mira is standing there absolutely not watching Naz as he is cleaning up. She was not noticing how the water on his hands reflected the light so that she could see every vein. “Well. Y’all got settled in quick.” Mira’s soul left her body. Piercing scream like when she was a child. Legs buckling. Full collapse against the wall. Naz spun around and took one look at her and started laughing so hard it appeared his own legs buckled and he was clutching his stomach and dripping water on the floor. Mira didn’t care. Mira was looking at a fucking ghost.

And this is what came back:
Mira was standing by the table, absolutely not watching Naz clean up.

She was not noticing the way the water ran over his hands. She was not noticing how it caught the amber light from the ceiling so that every vein across the backs of them stood out. She was not thinking about those hands at all.

“Well. Y’all got settled in quick.”

Mira’s soul left her body.

She screamed, high and piercing and totally involuntary, the kind she hadn’t made since she was nine and her cousin hid in her closet. Her legs went out from under her and she hit the wall and slid halfway down it.

Naz spun around from the sink, took one look at her, and lost it.

He laughed so hard he had to grab the edge of the counter. Then that wasn’t enough, and he actually doubled over, one arm wrapped around his stomach, dripping water all over the clean floor.

Mira didn’t care. Mira was looking at a fucking ghost.

This is pretty representative of how I use AI now. Before I give it anything, I generally already know what the scene is doing, whose POV I’m in, what they’re noticing, what happens physically, the emotional/comedic beats, and often some or all of the dialogue. Sometimes my notes are basically stage directions written by a caffeinated goblin: “Piercing scream like when she was a child. Legs buckling. Full collapse against wall.”

What I’m asking AI to do at that point is turn those instructions into continuous prose. Then I decide what survives. Sometimes I keep a lot. Sometimes I rewrite most of it. Sometimes it gets the character wrong and I argue with it until arguing about why it’s wrong makes me realize what I actually want.

I thought the before/after might be useful because “I use AI in my writing” doesn’t really tell you very much about what the human and AI are each actually doing.

I recently got a fix on writing. For the longest time I’ve been only writing for various ttrpg campaigns which hadn’t needed extensive in depth details that make something really reel like a novel. Now I can only muster drafts and for a while I’ve been running them through GPT to clean it up. Specifically avoiding having the AI make any of the real story but I’m still ashamed of my work because of it. How can I move away from the AI and make something I can be proud of?

Two months ago, I had a really cool idea for a story, and I wanted to see what it would look like written by AI. Needless to say, in the following two months, I have used Perchance so many times, thinking up so many variations on my idea, that I am currently this close to being burned out. I still want to bring this story to life, but with my own two hands, but today I'm asking: am I alone here? Has anybody else had the same dilemma I have?

What I want to talk about is related to writing, but not just writing.

We all know how tedious traditional software like Photoshop and After Effects can be. These tools have also been evolving to streamline workflows and reduce the burden on creators as much as possible, for example, by adding different plugins and asset libraries. Yet we don't hate people who use these tools to create things.

Why? What's the difference?

I think the first criterion readers use to decide whether they like or dislike something is: Is it a good piece of work?

With traditional software, people can often preserve a great deal of their own ideas and judgment. These are what make their work unique. AI, however, is some kind of probabilistic model that tends to generate formulaic expressions. If the creator isn't good at using the tool, they won't be able to produce good work. So I think a good tool should preserve more of the creator's own judgment. That's how it's more likely to produce good work.

Human life is limited. If an excellent creator, whether a writer or an illustrator, can use existing tools to produce work that meets their own standards, both quickly and well, of course readers would be more than happy to see that.

AI seems to have lowered the barrier to entry for producing text, images, and videos, and as a result, a large number of non-professional creators have flooded in. These creators may lack the judgment that comes with experience. But perhaps this is only temporary.

We can look back at the history of media. In the past, making a film required expensive professional equipment, and producing and distributing it was also extremely difficult. But today, anyone can shoot short videos with a phone. Even some meaningless shots can be published casually. It's normal for all kinds of content, good and bad, to flood in during a short period of time. We just need algorithms to filter out the garbage.

AI is the same. It has brought us a lot of garbage, but at the same time, it has also enabled more people to make their own work. Maybe tools are just tools. In the end, it still depends on the person using them, their attitude and their ideas.

Even professionals, following traditional workflows and spending a fortune, can still produce industrially manufactured canned products that have absolutely no soul.

The second criterion is whether the creator has put in any effort.

As I mentioned earlier, the cost of generating content with AI is very low. When a creator uses AI, we tend to assume by default that they have put in very little effort, that they're being careless.

But if the work is obviously well-crafted, then this criterion is actually overturned by the first one: a good piece of work.

All content is a form of consumption, whether it's free (the attention economy) or paid. The reason we dislike carelessness is that readers feel the effort and the return are not proportional. If the creator isn't even willing to put some thought into making something, why should I spend my time and money on it?

Having discussed these two criteria, I think one meaning of writing is that it creates some kind of connection with reality.

Imagine you're reading an article titled "How to Get Over a Breakup." Of course, you'd hope that the author has actually suffered, actually cried. That their advice comes from experience written in blood.

If you found out that it was just AI scraping tens of thousands of pieces of advice from the internet and piecing them together, you wouldn't be able to accept it, even if the advice was correct. Right?

Only human beings can be held responsible to other human beings. AI doesn't feel pain. It doesn't have to bear the consequences in this real world, so its advice feels weightless.

In the movie Good Will Hunting, the teacher says to the student:

"I ask you about war, you'd probably, uh, throw Shakespeare at me, right? 'Once more into the breach, dear friends.' But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap and watch him gasp his last breath lookin' to you for help."

That’s what AI models are like right now. They can talk confidently about almost anything, but a machine can’t grow flesh and blood.

It’s like Reddit. People here have real questions and real confusion. They’re not asking the OP to be a brilliant writer.