AI vs. Professional Authors Results
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·August 17, 2025Aeolun
sram1337
I would love to read some of this. Where do you find AI generated fiction?
antihipocrat
Who's voice are you using when adding your hand crafted prose? Mimicking the style of the 80% or switching to your own?
Perhaps I'm a Luddite, or just in the dissonance phase toward enlightenment, but at the moment I don't want to invest in AI fiction. A big part of the experience for me is understanding the author's mind, not just the story being told
akoboldfrying
I applaud OP's transparency and willingness to call this result what it is.
kristopolous
ai fiction really shines in baffling surreal prompts that it tries hard to satisfy. Here's an example prompt:
"let's write a story where donald trump is giving a speech to a crowd and people slowly discover that he is secretly a northern red oak tree in a human suit to the shock of fans and reporters, the tips of his fingers become branches, and he tries to deny it as wildly impossible as his human disguise continues to fail"
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jay_kyburz
Just wanted to be first to say I'm a huge fan of Mark Lawrence. I didn't know he blogged! Now I'll go actually read the post.
dwd
Big fan of Janny Wurts, particularly the Empire series she co-wrote with Raymond E Feist. Very surprised she was outed as an AI, though she is the only author I've ever had to pull out the dictionary as she used a word I had never seen and wanted to be sure of the meaning in the context.
Personally I’m having a blast reading AI generated fiction. As long as the direction is human, and often enough corrected to keep the minor inconsistencies out, the results are pretty good.
For me it’s no different from generating code with Claude, except it’s generating prose. Without human direction your result ends up as garbage, but there’s no need to go and actually write all the prose yourself.
And I guess that just like with code, sometimes you have to hand craft something to make it truly good. But that’s probably not true for 80% of the story/code.