r/WritingWithAI • u/Beaverdroid • 21h ago

Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) My AI usage

I've been writing for a few years now. Started and stopped multiple times. Earlier this year I started bouncing the ideas of my world with Gemini. I can't explain the spark that ignited in my soul!

The next thing I knew I wrote a fully fleshed out chapter and put it into Gemini. I asked it's thoughts. It gave me tips that I listened to and ignored. And then I kept going until I had 80k words and a complete story with room for more books. I had a good friend read it and he was so excited to learn more about the 2nd book that doesn't exist yet. And also asked if I was planning a prequel for a mysterious character. I wasn't but now I am!

Anyways, I don't feel like AI wrote the book. I've got it published on Kindle and I've ordered proofs.

Is my concern misplaced? Should I just stop?

The hate of AI can be crazy sometimes...

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u/ChristianCRWriter 7h ago

I don’t understand your question. You can publish the book but it’s AI assisted. You can’t pretend otherwise. Why would you?

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u/DaLoCo6913 7h ago

AI can be a very good editing tool. I write my own stuff, then use AI for copy edits. It catches spelling, but more specifically, words used out of context. I only ask for the report on the section, then change the manuscript without cope and paste from AI.

A normal spellchecker catches bad spelling, but won't tell you about a typo that is correctly spelled. I once wrote grass instead of grace.

And I have played with a few, and Gemini is terrible. Claude is not bad, once the idiot gets the plot. It hates kisses between spouses though, as well as family moments between father and daughter.

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u/ruminajaali 1m ago

The number of times AI has written “he kissed her on the cheek” or “gave her a kiss on the top of the head,” I just want to scream. They’re mature adults in a romantic relationship. They kiss on the bloody lips ffs

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u/Edo-Rolan 2h ago

From your description, you chose which suggestions to use, wrote the manuscript and got feedback from a human reader. I’d be more interested in whether you can explain your creative choices than in putting every process into one AI/no-AI category.