Wednesday, September 3, 2025

AI, AI, AI! Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Insecure Writers Support Group September 3 2025

 

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September 3 question - What are your thoughts on using AI, such as GPChat, Raptor, and others with your writing? Would you use it for research, storybible, or creating outlines\beats?

AI is a tool. I categorize my AI usage as AI-assisted. I do not use generative AI to write my stories for me. 

What's the difference between AI-assisted and generative AI?

Generative AI is a subset of AI that specializes in creating new content, such as text, images, and music, based on user inputs and existing data. 

AI-assisted systems focus on analyzing and interpreting existing data to improve decision-making and automate tasks, rather than generating new content. 

Sources:

https://www.coursera.org/articles/ai-vs-generative-ai

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai-101/generative-ai-vs-other-types-of-ai

https://www.udacity.com/blog/2025/03/what-is-generative-ai-vs-ai-key-differences-and-examples.html

https://education.illinois.edu/about/news-events/news/article/2024/11/11/what-is-generative-ai-vs-ai

The following is a list of the AI assistants I use.

AutoCrit

I use AutoCrit to draft and edit my manuscripts. I use their beat sheet tool to generate ideas for story beats. I also utilize their editing tools. 

I had purchased Scrivener about a month before I discovered AutoCrit. AutoCrit shares some similarities with Scrivener, but its learning curve is significantly less steep. I quickly became a lifetime member of AutoCrit. Scrivener has been gathering dust on my computer ever since. 

Claude

I use Claude for research and have also used Claude to help me create lists of questions for a series of nonfiction mental health and recovery workbooks I hope to release someday. 

Claude can perform generative AI functions. However, I don't use Claude to write my stories. On one occasion, I used Claude to help me flesh out a creature that appeared in one of my stories. The idea for the creature was mine. Claude simply suggested a few bells and whistles I could add to make it more memorable.

QuickWrite

I became a lifetime subscriber to QuickWrite early in its inception. I've used it to help me create basic outlines for blog posts, lists of potential titles for a story, a list of story prompts, or pictures of characters. 

This video from Ches's Book Nook presents valuable points.


I've sharply reduced the number of times I include em-dashes so as not to be accused of being AI. Not even kidding.

Here's an AI-generated story for you.

https://darkicon.com/lovecraft.htm

A blasphemous symbol

An egg around a canyon hurled a slow arch at a squid. Sometimes a symbol trembles, but soon I was to find that a history always secreted away the awful knowledge of the nameless nightmare! A phantasm toward an echo fainted at the very thought of an abyss, but the tripod played horrible games with a horrible tomb. If a non-chalantly self-loathing coin wisely disturbed a township, then a note inside the speech awakens. Most people believe that a stoic source secreted away the awful knowledge of the annihilation over a squid, but the makeshift library is much more infected. A demon around some sanity hurled a polygon of a recording at an usually memorable fascination. When a truck is temporal, a clock behind a lover befriended a living squid. A furtive vapour bumped accidentally into the inferiority. Indeed, the notable terror of the dirt-encrusted fascination was evil. A tape recorder returns, because a vacuum about a case played horrible games with the library over the germ. When a shocking history laughs like a man insane, a squid near a clock dies. When you see a manuscript near a speech, it means that the tome inside an ocean hides. At long last, the smelly ooze of the frightening, inexorably incinerated note was revealed! Furthermore, an ooze for some demon panics, and a myth negotiated with another nameless stone. For example, an organism indicates that a fractured source lectured at long length about some globule. For example, the existence indicates that a paralysis seekd some truck. When the unspeakable vista beams with living power, a treacherous sanity sleeps.


This is some of the finest electronic music I've heard in a while. Do check it out! If you like melodic techno, you won't be disappointed.


If you want to get your trance on, this mix is what you seek.



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AutoCrit

Claude

QuickWrite

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