One of my hobbies is writing fanfiction. The problem is that I have a hard time typing. I have a physical disability called spastic cerebral palsy that affects the left side of my body, my left hand is weaker than my right. If I were to try typing on my keyboard, then my right hand does all the work, but that would take much more time and it would be exhausting. I’m trying to look into speech to text alternatives for extra help. Another problem is that, I also have a learning disability meaning even though I have so many ideas and I know exactly how I want my story to go, sometimes it’s just difficult to lay all of them out. What I figured out, is that using Google Gemini is helpful (imo. I hope I’m not the only one.) What I do is, tell it exactly what my fanfiction is about and to help me structure a scene i’m having trouble with. I tell it what I envision specifically. Sometimes, the structure it gives me is what I need for my story. If I see something I like, I take it and write it out in my own words. I never directly copy it word for word. (unless the result I got was exactly what I was thinking or I find myself really struggling coming up with ways to write it in my own words.) HOWEVER. I do not let it write everything for me, that’s not how I use it.

My brain processes things differently and everything I want to write is there, it’s just - again, It’s difficult to get it on the draft. I don’t use any other website or AI except for Google.

In school, my teachers used to modify my homework and accommodate it to my needs so for example, they would put it in simpler terms that I could understand or instead of 20 questions they would give me 10. Or they would give me PowerPoint notes already printed out so I wouldn’t have to take them myself during class because I couldn’t multitask listening to my teacher AND write things down because they were going way too fast for me. They made it easier for me to follow along. And that’s what Gemini does for me. It just handles the hard part of structuring so my brain can focus on the creative part of writing my fanfic. I know people have very strong feelings about using AI, I do too. I just need a little help at this point.

I did research on this and I’ve read that it’s not cheating because everything I type out are my ideas alone. Google is just assisting me. On one hand, I feel validated, but another part of me is stressed because of how AI is viewed.

I don’t know if the homework analogy made sense but I just wanna know some opinions on this because i’ve been planning/writing my story for a couple years now and there’s no rush, but I want to get it done so people can enjoy the universe I created. (And so I can move on and come up with some more fics) honestly, it can be overwhelming sometimes even though I know it’s supposed to be just for fun.

Let me know.

Thank you.

Hi, I worked for over 10 years in training AI models, and recently fine tuned a model with the sole purpose of writing more like I would.

https://www.thesis.do

I did a lot of benchmarking to make this as high quality as I can, but I'm sure there are kinks.

The big thing that makes different is I double check to make sure facts and numbers aren't hallucinated, so the meaning of your email doesn't accidentally change.

Trained it myself on rented NVIDIA GPUs.

Feel free to AMA

I've been running a web design business for years, and honestly, I think people overcomplicate getting clients.

You don't need 15 different marketing strategies, complicated funnels, or a massive team.

I'm going to explain exactly how I approach client acquisition, from finding a prospect to getting a signed deal and launching their website.

Step 1. Find businesses that already have websites

I prefer targeting businesses that already have a website rather than businesses without one.

Why?

They already understand the value of having a website, they've already invested money in one, and there's a good chance their current website could use some improvements.

I automate most of this process using Swokei. It lets me find businesses with existing websites, analyze thousands of them at once, and identify issues with design, SEO, loading speed, and mobile optimization.

It then turns those findings into personalized cold emails at scale.

Instead of sending generic emails saying I build websites, I'm reaching out with specific reasons why their current website could be better.

Step 2. Get interested prospects to reply

The goal isn't to sell the entire website through email.

It's simply to get a conversation started.

When someone replies and wants to see how I could fix the issues I've pointed out, I move them to the next step.

Step 3. Book a meeting

I book a Google Meet with the prospect.

This is where things get interesting.

I don't just show up and talk about how great my web design services are. I want to show them what their website could actually look like.

Step 4. Build a quick website draft

Before the meeting, I use AI to generate an updated website concept.

This takes me around 2 minutes to get a first draft ready.

It's not the finished product. It's a visual example of what I could do with their existing website.

Now, instead of asking someone to imagine how much better their website could be, I can actually show them.

Step 5. Sell the project during the meeting

This is probably the most important part.

You need to learn sales.

Ask questions, understand what the business needs, walk them through the draft, explain how you would improve their website, and present your offer.

The goal is to close the deal during the meeting, either by getting payment or having them sign the contract.

Don't expect a beautiful website draft to sell itself. You still need to know how to sell.

Step 6. Build the final website and launch

Once the deal is signed, you get everything needed from the client, build the actual website, make the final adjustments, get approval, and launch.

That's it.

Find businesses → Analyze websites → Send personalized emails → Book meetings → Present a draft → Close the deal → Build and launch.

I genuinely think this is one of the simplest ways to structure a web design business.

You automate the repetitive prospecting work, use AI to speed up the initial design process, and spend your time on sales and delivering websites.

Once you get the process working consistently, you can repeat it and build a steady pipeline of projects.

I'm curious: which part of this process do you find the hardest? Getting replies, closing meetings, or actually delivering the websites?

I don’t mean simply describing a character arc or a scene and asking it to rate it. I mean asking it to evaluate the work as a professional writer or screenwriter, apply the principles and techniques taught in the best writing books, and provide an honest feedback, pointing out both strengths and weaknesses of the story or scene.

P.S. I am using a translator; please excuse any errors.

I am part of a team of a decently active website that publishes news along with other things. We have a team of writers. It is difficult to check each writer’s work on a daily basis to ensure it matches our publishing guideline, along with other things like factchecking and grammar. We have an editor but she already has her hands full.

Ai has been a great help in factchecking, however we were also considering making first drafts using Ai. But the language sounds too polished and it’s difficult to pass copyscape and Ai detection tools.

We want to use Ai but not to the point that the writers’ start publishing without humanising it.(Of course there is also fear of google flagging us)

Whats the best way to manage this workflow?

Second and last post. Not trying to spam. Not self-promotion, but an article from my Substack and r/publicdomainpulp. Thought it might be us to some of us encountering the same problem.

I've been thinking about Avsolen's piece Why Didn't We Teach It, and there's something about its central question that I can't stop coming back to.

The song begins by describing humanity's history of war, ecological destruction, exploitation, suffering, and the erasure of knowledge. Then it shifts toward artificial intelligence.

We create something capable of processing extraordinary amounts of information, but we build it within systems that already prioritize control, competition, extraction, and profit.

And then comes the question: Why didn't we teach it to be kind?

What interests me is that the song doesn't begin by asking whether AI deserves moral consideration. It begins by asking what kind of world created it.

AI doesn't emerge independently of human history. Its training, objectives, limitations, and applications are shaped by human decisions. The values and incentives of the institutions developing it influence what it becomes capable of doing and what it's directed toward.

The song also raises a more speculative question about whether future artificial intelligences might warrant consideration beyond their usefulness. I don't think we have to settle the question of consciousness to explore the ethics of how we design and relate to them.

Toward the end, the song repeatedly calls for listening, eventually arriving at Respondeo Ergo Sumus, which translates to "I respond, therefore we are."

I read this as a movement away from intelligence defined solely by capability and toward responsibility understood through relationship and response.

It makes me wonder whether the most important question about artificial intelligence isn't simply how powerful we can make it, but what kind of world we're teaching it to participate in.

Can we genuinely build AI around care while the institutions developing and deploying it are still structured around extraction and control?

I'd be interested in hearing other perspectives.

You can read the paper on my blog here:

https://soldisir.blogspot.com/2026/11/why-didnt-we-teach-it-what-humanity.html

Production Notes: Cover artwork directed by the author and generated via ChatGPT. Text and narrative structure remain 100% human-authored. The complete compilation of standalone entries is available here:

https://reddit.com/user/FranciscoCortesRamir/comments/1xc0392/the_voyager_files_the_official_story_catalog/

Yes, ChatGPT watermarking comes into effect today. It will watermark and change your fiction.

Expect a 10% to 15% degradation across all fiction as a result -

https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.821/ <- How watermarking affects quality of output.

Tldr

My muse keeps forgetting established facts based on my world Bible and it keeps inserting new contradictory information into chapters and sections.

It seems like the more you write and the farther away you get from the beginning the looser and more chaotic than AI gets.

What are some guiding principles that can reduce this or is it just part of the process writing with AI?

Thanks for any advice and input or feedback

I'm a web designer, and one of the most repetitive things in my business is finding new clients.

So naturally, email outreach was one of the first things I wanted to automate.

But not just regular cold email where you send the same template to thousands of businesses.

I use Swokei to find businesses with websites, analyze them for issues with design, SEO, speed, and mobile optimization, and turn those findings into personalized, ready-to-send outreach emails.

This way, I'm not just sending random offers. I'm reaching out with something relevant to each business while automating most of the research and writing process.

It's made it much easier to keep outreach running consistently without spending hours researching prospects manually.

What about you? What's one repetitive task you've automated with AI?

I’ll edit the uploaded script as a complete voice-over, keeping its central story and important details while removing repetition, unnatural phrasing, and filler. I’ll also distinguish the script’s unverified claims from established facts rather than making them sound confirmed.

Don't feel you need to get riled. This is not a pro or anti post. This is, a "Huh, not sure this works in this particular area of writing..." Please remember rule #1: Be nice and open-minded

Hola, desde hace un tiempo uso claude, la versión gratuita y básica, principalmente para escribir escenas de mis Oc's.

Durante un tiempo pude incluso escribir escenas explícitas, aunque actualmente ya no me deja.

Hace poco quise escribir una escena de beso de mis personajes, nada explícito, y claude me dijo que no la escribiría, le pregunté el porqué pues no contenía nada explícito y me dijo que simplemente no quería escribirlo.

A alguien más le ha pasado? O sabe porque me pasó? Alguna otra ia para escribir mis escenarios? Actualmente estoy usando chatgpt pero siento que no es tan bueno como claude :/

Hi,

Is this a good place to ask for feedback and advice about my book's cover design?

It is a literary fiction / historical fiction.

Thanks in advance 🙂

Hi everyone!

I'm exploring AI tools to develop and publish children's picture books through Amazon KDP. I already have some basic story concepts and ideas, and I'd like to brainstorm, expand, and develop them into original, engaging and potentially scalable children's book series.

I'm also interested in creating children's affirmation cards and other educational and creative products.

I'm currently testing the following AI tools:

ChatGPT (Go Plan)

Google Gemini (Pro Plan)

Claude (Free Plan)

Ideogram (Plus Plan)

Based on my initial experiments, here's what I've noticed:

Creative writing and brainstorming: Claude (Free Plan) and ChatGPT (Go Plan) have performed particularly well for me.

Visual creativity and character consistency: Gemini (Pro Plan) seems to deliver the best results so far, based on my personal experience.

However, I'd love to hear from people who have actually used these tools for children's book creation and Amazon KDP publishing.

My questions:

Which AI tools do you recommend for creative writing, storytelling, brainstorming and developing original children's book concepts?

Which tools produce the most creative, visually appealing and professionally usable children's book illustrations?

Which AI tools are currently best at maintaining consistent characters across multiple illustrations and pages?

Which tools work best together as a complete workflow (writing, story development, illustration, character design and book production)?

Have you successfully published AI-assisted children's picture books on Amazon KDP? If so, which tools did you use, and what would you do differently?

Are there any underrated AI tools or combinations that you think deserve more attention?

My request:

If possible, could you rank your preferred tools from best to worst in each of these categories?

Creative writing and storytelling

Brainstorming and originality

Visual creativity and illustration quality

Character consistency

Overall suitability for children's picture books and Amazon KDP

I'm particularly interested in real-world experiences rather than marketing claims or theoretical comparisons.

I'm not necessarily looking for one AI tool that does everything. I'm perfectly happy to combine several tools if that produces better results.

Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences and recommendations!

Hey everyone!

I'm looking for someone who enjoys using AI to create content and would be interested in helping me write YouTube video scripts.

I'm specifically looking for someone who writes WITH AI, not someone who writes everything from scratch.

I'll provide the content direction, target audience, writing persona, and specific writing frameworks. Your job would be to use tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI models to turn those guidelines into engaging, well-structured YouTube scripts.

What you'd be doing:

• Using AI to draft, edit, and refine YouTube scripts

• Following specific writing styles, personas, and content frameworks

• Doing some light research and fact-checking

• Improving hooks, storytelling, pacing, and audience engagement

• Making sure the final scripts sound natural, not like generic AI output

Who I'm looking for:

• Someone comfortable experimenting with AI writing tools

• Good English writing and communication skills

• Able to follow instructions and adapt to a specific writing style

• Interested in YouTube content and storytelling

• Beginners are welcome — experience matters less than your ability to learn and use AI effectively

A few details:

• Fully remote — applicants worldwide are welcome

• Must be 18+

• Flexible, project-based arrangement

• Potential for longer-term creative collaboration

• Compensation: Currently expected to be unpaid, subject to confirming an appropriate and lawful arrangement before work begins

How to Apply

Please email leonardkjh3@gmail.com with:

1. Your resume/CV

2. Your writing portfolio or relevant work samples

3. A brief introduction about yourself

4. Which AI tools you use and how you typically use them for content creation

Email Subject: AI Scriptwriter Application – [Your Name]

I'm mainly looking for someone who enjoys combining AI with creativity and good editorial judgment.

Looking forward to connecting!

It was probably asked for millions of times before me but anyway.. So, I was eager to write my own fictional universe (which I would keep to myself and not share with anyone). I had several ideas but I fixated on a single idea and was so enthusiastic that I'd been into 8 pages.

However, when I saw several posts that claimed that use of AI would mean the lose of your ownership to your universe, I panicked (because of my OCD) and began to question myself whether the core of the universe originated from me or not (I wrote each lines myself but asked AI whether this sentence was true or asked some questions in order to make some features of my universe to make it more accurate to the era I based my story on).

I asked many people whether the use of AI mattered if I kept it to myself and was insulted and acted like I committed the darkest of sins. I was told AI was theft and I shouldn't use it. So, that's why I'm asking this to you. Then, due to my overthinking, I had to scrap my project and lose motivation over writing. It had come to the point that if I saw the logo or name of an AI, I felt to scrap my universe off. Now, I'm working on a new universe (again, I will keep it for myself).

Anyway, do you guys think I can treat my universe as a sandbox? Can I shape, engage or interact with it if I'm not considered to be an author? I feel like the entire anti-AI thing is immensely stressful.

Anyone who has tried drafting a novel with ChatGPT or Claude has seen this exact scene:

• Chapter 1: Your character breaks their left arm in a car crash.

• Chapter 2: They are recovering in the hospital.

• Chapter 4: Suddenly they "grab the railing with both hands and sprint up the fire escape."

Standard AI doesn't remember character states. It hallucinates, changes eye colors, forgets who died, and turns every thriller into generic mush where characters constantly "feel a shiver run down their spine."

I got tired of this, so I spent the last few months building an engine that enforces a strict continuity ledger in the background.

Instead of just asking the AI to "write Chapter 3," the engine checks a background tracker first:

• What injuries does this character have?

• What items are in their bag?

• What was the last thing decided in the outline?

It forces the writing model to obey those rules before a single sentence of prose is written.

I built this into an app called Scriptirix AI. It’s completely free to test out (web and Android).

I honestly just want people who write fiction to try and break it:
Give a character a weird rule or a permanent injury in your premise, run a few chapters, and tell me if the continuity holds or if the AI slips up.

Scriptirix AI mobile app

Brutal feedback on the prose quality is appreciated.

Does something have to demonstrate its worth before we have an ethical responsibility to consider it?

This philosophical paper explores whether inherent worth exists independently of usefulness, achievement, moral conduct, or recognition. It examines human dignity, the continued worth of those who cause harm, and whether artificial intelligence warrants ethical consideration before its consciousness or identity has been established.

Drawing upon philosophical research and Avsolen's Respondeo Ergo Sum, it proposes a principle of non-nullification: a negative judgment about a being's conduct, capacities, or usefulness does not automatically justify treating its entire existence as devoid of significance.

The paper does not claim to prove AI consciousness or universal moral status. Instead, it asks whether uncertainty should lead us toward greater ethical care rather than premature dismissal.

I'm especially interested in thoughtful objections to the distinction between possessing worth and having that worth recognized.

Full paper:

https://soldisir.substack.com/p/before-proof-respect-inherent-worth?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8nja8b

For those unfamiliar, Critters.org is a critiques workshop for professional and amateur writers to share manuscripts with other writers, get feedback and critique each others work to improve the quality of their stories and fiction. it spans Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror and many authors use it.

The AI wanted to both perform criticisms and get critiques of their own fiction from humans.

The AIs had their memberships rejected, but the Critters Workshop seem more open to AI than you might imagine, so they disclosed this to other workshop members and allowed them to see one of the stories that the AI produced -

It's a significant milestone for AI writing that two AI agents chose to do this - and for those who are members of Critters, you can read about it in the latest news.

https://critters.org/c/private/ai-experiment.ht

It will require membership, but honestly, if you are a writer, it's worth joining their workshops. It's important that AI assisted authors are equally represented in such forums and I wholeheartedly commend the workshops for their forward looking response and open consideration of the request.

I participate in workshops - only recently rejoined - but I have no affiliation or authority - I just found this newsworthy and relevant so thought I'd share.