[Tacky and Upsetting]

It’s important to make the distinction between AI authors creating AI written stories (AI slop) and authors who use AI to assist them. I have no interest in writing, reading or defending the former.

I don’t think it’s fair to call somebody who uses AI to proofread an AI author. Anybody using Microsoft Word as far back as the 90s was using a form of AI – it was called spellcheck.
Equally, bouncing ideas off it at the draught stage does not qualify as AI written. In the past, with my old account, I did that because I can’t really ask my writing group to hear me out about ideas where a woman is paraded around naked on stage and has her head shaved because I would be ostracised very quickly. And rightly so (know your audience).
It would give me ideas, sometimes I would run with them, and often I would go in a completely different direction to what AI suggested. If you’re in a rut, you haven’t written for a while and want to free of the creative wheels, it’s a great tool.

If you’re the one putting your words on paper (or screen) which have come from your brain, you’re not an AI writer. You’re still doing the work, you’re still putting in the time, you’re just using a tool to make getting there a little more painless.
I SUCK at proofreading my own work. Would we have an issue with writers using Grammerley? Spellcheck?

For what’s it worth I’ve not been using AI to help me write on this account, only as an assistant on my old one before I deleted it.
Anybody familiar with what I did would know there was no way AI could write stories that were as unhinged, un politically correct and downright bad in places.

Producing AI slop and passing it off as your own is something very, very different, and should have no place on this site.

[Tacky and Upsetting]

Garbage in, garbage out.

I don’t think there’s any harm in using AI in the way you have described, as that’s exactly what it was meant for. It was always intended to be a bolster for human creativity and ingenuity, not a replacement.
You just know if you’re reading an AI generated story or a human generate story. It’s like like listening to a cassette. You just know it’s a cassette and not a CD, or driving a diesel car vs a petrol car. You can instinctively tell which it is.

Personally, I have used AI to help back me out a corner when writing or to give me ideas of where to take something, but I have never just let it write the entire thing. What’s the point?
None of us are getting paid, we’re all in it for the love of the game, so why give the task to a computer?

[Tacky and Upsetting]

There’s nothing wrong with writing for you and never posting.

[Tacky and Upsetting]

Yes, but they get chased off the site by bitter, sad, cynical people.

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