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I actively try to avoid that. As for how effective those safeguards are. I honestly don't know, it's still an LLM trained on existing works. I'm not knowledgeable enough in that area to give a definitive answer.
I also want to be clear: I don't intentionally copy other writers' styles. I don't paste excerpts from works to influence what I write nor tell the AI to mimic specific authors.
I have no intention on publishing works with heavy AI-assist (which is pretty much all of my work). The idea is to learn with AI, not depend entirely on it. If I ever want these works to be publication-ready, a strict standard will be applied and grind through develop my own voice.
What I do believe in is: transparency. I want to approach readers in good faith and let them decide whether their values align with projects I'm involved with. If you choose not to read my works solely for the fact that it is AI-assisted, that's completely valid to me.
I appreciate QQ for at least being somewhat tolerant of AI-assisted works. I know this has been controversial to many, it's an evocative topic that triggers most people. I understand that there is no right answer to this even from an objective standpoint.
I am a designer of blueprint that a writer (or future me) will execute—the same way that one collaborates with a ghostwriter. The ideas are mine; the execution is collaborative and while the prose is something I'm still learning to shape. Ideally, that "ghostwriter" becomes me in the future.
You may call me an AI Writer and that will be a fair assessment in the most basic sense. What I think I am is a Context / Prompt Engineer operating as a Narrative Designer.
That said, I aspire to be one. You're free to critique it: my methods, everything, especially from the perspective from what a writer "should be". I'm not proud that this isn't the traditional path but it's where I'm most receptive to improve and drive myself to write and bring my ideas to life...
I don't consider myself as a writer—not yet. I'm not a wordsmith nor a mason building stories word by word with confidence. I cannot write and often struggle on my own.
That said, I don't want to purely rely on AI as a shortcut. I'm interested in pushing since then past its usual limitations: the flatness, the generic phrasing, the uncreative figures of speeches. It's a bit laborious that sometimes fruits and makes me want to push and develop my own writing skill.
I'm not much of a prose writer. I used to write short stories and ones that are written never really goes beyond Chapter 1. Recently, though, I began dabbling in AI-assisted writing. I found myself with a burst of inspiration (and fool myself) that I can actually write using this tool. It's such...