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Why Writers Hate AI (From a Writer Who Doesn’t)

The anti-AI sentiment within the writing community is rabid. Many writers say that all AI writing is slop, and you should never use it. But I think that’s mostly denial and cope. LLMs are getting better by the day, and while I still mostly stand by this piece about the limits of ChatGPT at writing fiction, AI (Claude in particular) has gotten orders of magnitude better at writing fiction over the two and a half years since I wrote that—and it will only get better in the future. If you think AI cannot contribute to good writing, you’re not trying hard enough (or prompting well enough).

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AI-Assisted Fiction Writing for Research and Parody

One of the best use cases for AI in writing fiction is as an expert personal research assistant. A common writing tip is to “write what you know.” This doesn’t mean to only write about your personal life, but to write about things you personally know about. That could mean doing research about certain topics you haven’t experienced personally until you are familiar enough to convincingly write about that topic. The problem with research is that it can take a lot of time, which limits the amount of actual creative writing you can do. That’s where AI comes in.

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