Tag Archives: LLMs

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.

Continue reading →

The Futile Attempt to Ban AI Writing

1 Reply

If you want to submit a short story or novel to any publisher today, you will inevitably find a disclaimer on their submission guidelines page that forbids submitting a story that used AI. But what exactly does “using AI” entail? If you dictate a story with an app that uses AI to transcribe it, is that using AI? If you then use Grammarly to proofread and edit, is that using AI? If you upload your manuscript to use Perplexity as a fact-checker and research assistant, is that using AI? If you use ChatGPT to help generate ideas during the outline phase but then write the actual story yourself, is that using AI? If you generate the first draft of a story with an LLM, but then rewrite every single word, is that still considered using AI? What if you only change 95% of the words? 75%? 50%?

Continue reading →