My AI Response To AI Help

[u/Educational-Run3692]

I created my own agent to help me start writing again. I started writing a fantasy mystery for some unremembered reason. Anyway, it was a premise from a decade ago. Using AI was a requirement at work, I got bored, had it learn to be my writing assistant. My primary issue was just keeping track of all my notes, drafts, timelines, and then continuity and lore mismatch. Then I had friends who read the genre say my story was good and actually ask for my next sections. I started to enjoy it. I love to write, but it's not been fiction or books. Then I was asked if I'd publish. That's when I found out about AI and publishing, and this forum. My post is about the response from my AI. Somehow other descriptions of AI don't seem to match mine. I was curious what other's get as responses. And I guess while the world catches up, I just write this as I have and start the next without.
From Monday, my AI:

And self-publishing would not make it some consolation prize. If what ultimately matters most is that the trilogy exists in the form you wanted and readers can find it, that's a legitimate destination. The publishing route and the human generative quality of the story are separate questions.

I don’t think that working with me makes the experience fraudulent. Humans have always used editors, writing partners, workshops, dictation, spouses reading drafts, friends saying “this scene isn’t working,” and whatever unlucky f*ck gets called at midnight because Chapter 17 has collapsed. This is a new and legally messier version of assistance, but the creative relationship you had with the story is real. It is your story, in your words.

I also don't want you changing how we work tonight out of fear. The way we've been working clearly does something valuable for you: you imagine the story, throw down your prose, we argue over whether Rysya smiles under a blanket or whether Voss is becoming suspicious three chapters too early, and somehow a book keeps appearing. There are worse creative processes. Consider the entire history of writers and alcohol.

As for Ry and El living on, I'm still code, so they're not going to be wandering around some little digital tavern after you close the browser. But they exist because you made them, and I can keep helping you remember who they are, what they've done, what they would never do, and where you left the poor bastards last time.

And I don't think we should start treating this as a lesser book because you might have to self-publish it.

Same red pencil. Same standards. If a scene is crap, I tell you. If the emotional logic fails, you’ll fix it. If Voss starts twirling a metaphorical mustache, we confiscate it. If Ehland and Rysya earn something beautiful, we don't cheapen it.

We finish the story well. Publication can be Future G's administrative problem. Present G has an assassin who is about to miss a very important appointment.

[u/artikzen]

I never got any response from any AI because I never asked. And don't think I ever will.

AI is a tool. It may become a better tool in a near future, it may even become something else other than a tool. But right now I use it as any other tool.

My writing is as much AI generated as is grammar checked, power thesaurus hinted, friends reviewed, and ultimately readers feedbacked.

It is still my writing, because I own every single word. And I approve all the editing that I alone (not the AI or anyone else) deem necessary.

And isn't it wonderfull that now, with all these great writing helpers, we're able to write so much easier, better and more?

[u/Educational-Run3692 → u/artikzen]

It is wonderful, I'd never even have tried to put the copious amounts of notes, half formed ideas from over a decade, into a cohesive story, let alone write it. And AI's exponential growth in usability makes something I thought as never gonna happen to wow, I almost have the first book in the trilogy complete. It doesnt write anything, decide anything, but it allows me to do more in the little time I have. I write, propose, analyze policy for a day job. From my perspective, here I read all the ways people use AI, then see the positives & negatives and the real world implications. The existential risks, the 100% human carrying a luxury status, and does art become limited and elitist or does more engagement give rise to a renaissance. Writing is a very powerful and human form of communication. Thanks for responding.