Does anyone use AI to assist with their writing?

[Paper Tiger]

Hi,

I'm new here and I was just curious if any of you used AI to help with your writing? I don't mean to create an entire reply but just to enhance or embellish what you have already written before posting? I know many AI platforms do not allow NSFW content which could be an issue but it's something I've been curious about getting into.

 

[Revelations]

In general AI is something of a hot subject for the RP community, and while this is purely anecdotal, I think a fair amount of role players here do not care largely for the usage of AI in forming a reply, be it assistance only or writing the reply out.

 

[Siph]

For spell checks? Sure, though in my experience AI-based spelling checks are less reliable than conventional ones.

To do anything else, that is, anything creative? Nah. If I wanted AI-generated/enhanced/altered replies, I'd play with an AI. I'm here to play with real people, with their own style, creativity and quirks.

If you're using AI to learn to write better, I strongly recommend you don't. AI chatbots are about the worst (if not actively counterproductive) source you could use to learn anything, especially creative things. There's plenty of things you could do instead, the most obvious ones being writing more, writing with different people, and perhaps the simplest of all, opening a book and reading.

That said, everybody enjoys this hobby in a different way and wants to get different things out of it, so if AI-based methods help you reach those goals, that's perfectly valid. It's just not part of how I personally enjoy roleplay.

 

[Sync]

Nope. I actively avoid AI in my writing. Any response I provide is 100% me, including the typos and things I forgot to include.

 

[Lazarae Marionette]

I got so tired of Grammarly going to shit as it focused more and more on being an AI-based tool I stopped using it. Gdocs forced a free trial of their AI I couldn't make go away for the time it lasted, and what it offered– moral and ethical concerns aside– was... disappointing, we'll go with.

I also don't trust them to not be scraping my writing, with the nature of LLMs and the cautious wording of their privacy policies. Especially with things like frequency-based spelling/grammar checks, which work by looking at how often users spell or type things certain ways and decide that the most common is the most correct. They're getting that data from the users. Frequency-based tools are, incidentally, why Grammarly and Gdocs have started 'correcting' properly-spelled words into common typos instead of the other way around.

Don't trust, it, don't like it, was actively having to fight provided corrections on the grounds of them being blatantly wrong.

 

[Lockdown]

Everything I create is from brainstorming or getting ideas from movies, songs, shows, books, etc. Writing is supposed to be fun with a pinch of art behind the words. Why you would ever need A.I to touch up your work is a mystery, and borderline disingenuous to then publish the text as yours. Just have fun and you’ll get better at it.