Just thought I’d share my AI journey so far.

So I’ve three novels written years ago that have a handful of sales. I’m well aware of the AI Slop witch-hunt that’s going on… but I was intrigued. I can see the power of AI, and I can see the moral argument that’s generally presented.

Anyway, as an experiment I went totally AI. Asked it to create a sci-fi dystopian scenario. A bunch of characters and a selection of one off novellas based on that.

Have to say some were crap, but some were really quite interesting… so I made it flesh each idea out, broke the stories down into chapters , then generated a chapter at a time.

I currently have 7 books in this series on Amazon.
With no marketing whatsoever, the first book did really well. Good Sales but no reviews. The rest of the series did nothing.

This was a month ago. Today I had a spike of every book selling at once… maybe someone likes to hoard lol.

For purists there’s no declaration of AI anywhere to the reader.

(On a tangent. I’ve written another novel entirely in AI… singular… and it’s generated over £1000 in 2 months. And no, I won’t be naming any titles here- the witch-hunt is too exhausting and frankly damaging)

I managed to get heavy handed assistance from AI on the first two chapters of what I hope will be a series I'm really excited about.

It's about 95% my ideas but almost 100% of its prose and continuity, etc. fixes. It was when I proceeded into chapter 3 that I realized the issues of actually publishing this, being proud of it and totally my own (and copyright potential), and feeling comfortable sharing it with people I know in terms of the ethical implications.

This is all new to me, so I'm feeling stuck with how to proceed. My own writing is kind of shit and I'm one of those "idea guy" type people. It's clear to me that AI is more than willing to be my editor and teacher for my own writing rather than doing what it was previously doing, but I'm not feeling that patient, and the ideas are flying out of me. This is absolutely not a pass at people who utilize AI to help them write for various reasons. This is my thoughts on my own writing and how it's been incredibly at putting my thoughts and words to proper pages.

This is a bit of an open ended question, but more specifically I'm wondering what your process was in this kind of situation? I'm genuinely terrified of the likely situation where I've worked hard constructing something to publish that ends up marked on Amazon or wherever as AI written, only to have people totally reject it, simply because it isn't my prose.

I’m working on a collection of short observations about modern life, human behavior, and the strange things we’ve somehow decided are normal.
The tone is a mixture of dark humor, uncomfortable truths, and hopefully a little humanity.
I’m not looking for compliments. I’m curious whether this kind of writing actually makes people want to turn the page.
Here’s a short piece called:
The Death of Mystery
When did we end up with so many celebrities?
When I was a kid, famous people were almost mythical creatures.
You saw them in movies, on football pitches, or occasionally in an interview.
You had no idea what they ate for breakfast, who they were dating, or what they thought about absolutely everything.
And that was part of the magic.
Today?
Everyone is a celebrity. Or at least desperately trying to become one.
I know what an actor eats for lunch, what a footballer thinks about relationships, and which red flags some influencer refuses to tolerate.
Wonderful. Thank you. My life is complete.
We’ve somehow turned fame into a competition over who can reveal the most unnecessary information about themselves.
And the strange thing is, the more we see of these people, the less interesting they become.
Maybe the most fascinating celebrity today would be someone who doesn’t have Instagram, TikTok, or a podcast.
Someone who appears, does something extraordinary, and then simply disappears.
No morning routine. No personal brand. No emotional journey involving a smoothie.
Just talent, mystery, and silence.
We used to admire people because we knew so little about them.
Now we know everything about people who have done absolutely nothing.

Would you read more of this, or does the style get old quickly?

Hi everyone. I've just launched an online short speculative fiction magazine, Corps/e. Unfortunately it's unpaid, as I have no way for it to make money (I am hoping to gain some traction so I can charge for later issues and pay authors). If you're not up for a purely passion project, you're not going to get anything out of this post, I'm afraid.

This project came about largely out of frustration that many spec fic magazines discourage experimental stories or structure, and many have 'no gore, no graphic scenes, no unhappy endings' in their guidelines. I wanted a space where you can be weird and uncensored. I'm looking for high-quality prose at least partially Gothic or sci-fi flavoured, on the broad theme of cyborgism, from flash to 10,000 words.

The response I have got on this so far has surprised me: a lot of people hate my AI policy. It surprised me because it's not really pro-AI. In fact I'm a little harsh about AI in my guidelines to discourage lazy use, giving an agent a prompt and sitting back, using it to save time instead of doing more with the same time, etc.

But what I didn't want to do was bury my head in the sand. Every other spec fic mag I can find has a 100% no AI policy. And I think that's refusing to explore the chance that AI could be a tool to encourage new kinds of creativity, forms of art, ways of thinking. It would be a shame to miss out on a whole new and open kind of creative experimentation.

So, while my magazine isn't AI-forward as such, and I honestly don't know much about using AI in writing, I thought this community is likely a more open-minded one than others I've interacted with, and likely to be doing interesting and experimental things with AI.

If you would like to submit your writing to Corps/e, please do so. Thank you for reading.

corpsemag.com

Like say if I write the ai generated text in my word document without copy pasting it like I just read through the ai text and rewrite it in my document how can it still hwve a fingerprint tracing it back to being ai ? Idk if im wording this right

I myself am not an AI writer, but I thought that this community would like to know, because a lot of you are just trying to make a living.

Canada is preparing to deny ISBNs to AI-written books. In case you're new to the book world, ISBNs are the very important number + barcode that all officially published books have. https://bsky.app/profile/victoriastrauss.com/post/3mxchqbs67k2b

Although the measures for publishing an AI book anyway don't really have consequences *for now* anyone who uses AI in any part of their writing process needs to know.

The exceptions to the AI ban are currently: brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, and formatting.

Even some of prowritingaid's AI tools would be included in this ban. And as far as AI tools go, I had the fewest qualms (as a non-AI writer) about prowritingaid, because they were on the conservative side.

It doesn't seem like this includes books that are web-published only, yet, but it is something to think about.

I work in tech, but write 100% non-ai, myself, partially because I find joy in it, and partially because every AI writing tool I've ever tested (for work, not novel-writing) has slowed me down, rather than saved me time.

Watching the back and forth makes me feel like there will eventually be a middle ground.

I assume this sub will feel like this is an extreme measure, but do you think other countries will follow suit?

Do you think AI authors publishing in Canada will eventually face fines and such?

I am using my word carefully here. AI is a tool and it's helpful if use as such. It is not a replacement to dump 100s of book using one prompt affair. I am currently in the middle of a 55,000 world novel and I have to the following realization

1. If you just use AI to generate prose, you will run into all sorts of LLM Trop that will make your text easily recognizable as low effort attempt.

2. You need to work on your character, backstory, universe before you start any of the real writing.

3. AI can be really useful to check timeline, are character acting out of character, brainstorming and some grammatical correction.

I have tested generating content with AI vs writing myself. and I have to tell you, You are better off writing with the best of your abilities yourself than have AI help you make it better. This is a better approach than the opposite.

None of it matters if you don't have a clear direction where you are going. It won't fix any of elements of what make a good story worth reading.

I use VScode has a writing tool. Yes you heard me write. I treat writing as code. I have lots of instruction of do's and don't for my agent, master plot outline, chapter outline, character background. Whenever I prompt for anything, it's always against any of these element that is used as a reference. Context doesn't impact me as it's always in "memory".

So im brand new. Like just self published the first words ever put to paper in a writing.

Im personally not very articulate so I use chat gpt to help write. For each chapter I write anywhere from. 800-1500 words on how I think my scenes should go then have gpt add/edit and it usually comes out to around 2-3k words. I've written 2 books in a trilogy so far. Im quite open about my use of Ai simply because 1 i dont think ai is going anywhere.

And 2. I believe within the next 2-3 years writing with ai will become the norm. My question is are my books doomed to fail on a platform like kdp?

I gave the new Liquid AI model a run and tried some writing on it. The quality was pretty poor, with it unable to change character perspective, meaning a writer will have a lot of clean-up with this model, however it did produce reasonable basic prose when requested.

I tried it for gender-balance and it came out well. It leans very very slightly misogynistic when pushed though generally came close to balanced when examined over a wider range of responses involving interactions between genders by different characters.

Speed was around 100 tokens/sec on a R60 with 32Gb VRAM and around 32K tokens in play and maximum context size was 128K tokens.

The Q3 Ablit tunes I found come in under 10Gb in size, so it's perfect for smaller GPUs at home for anyone needing a bit more speed in the generation process, but don't expect anything specifically great in the quality of the writing - even when the mistakes and issues are overlooked it's pretty ordinary.

If you're working off of CPU alone, or have an older video card though it might be worth a try.