Writer Instagram-face of Roleplay (The AI talk)

[Balun Dashiell]

Ah, now I've just noticed this discussion, and those who have written with me since I've been writing this Character will notice that I've been using EM Dashes. Good Ol' Chat GPT. Yes, I am guilty of this, however, never in the sense of using it to straight up script entire posts for me.

For a wee while now, I've been quietly fighting with the urge to kick the AI for, as someone else mentioned already, imposter syndrome or otherwise feeling like a fraud with regard to my writing. Everything that I have written has absolutely come from my head; however, I have often passed it through ChatGPT to "Rewrite this clearly" to help me fix up my delivery.

Case and point, the fraud, AI adds in words that I might not normally use, and I find myself feeling less and less invested in the work that I've put into my character. The effort is still largely there, but to a large degree, the writing is no longer only my own, and that feels wrong.

I fell into this trap because not only did I want to try and improve on my writing, but I wanted to try and change my style of writing entirely. There have been some amazing writers that I had shared threads with before who had been so descriptive, and so I figured why not use AI to help me learn how to better articulate my posts, in doing so, my writing as a whole. To some small extent, this may have helped, but not nearly enough to justify my use of it in place of personal creativity, in my opinion now.

Keep in mind, I'm a father of four teenagers, one of whom (19) has a child themselves. Life is hectic on a good day. Quiet in my house, however, is a myth, so posting is an uphill battle.

I'm very glad that I noticed this thread, and spent the time reading through it, as it's validated a lot of the thoughts that I have been feeling.

Edit: It might seem surprising given I roleplayed for years on Chaos perfectly fine on my own without it previously, but those who know me also know I'm extremely hard on myself and so if I can improve in some way, I'm likely to try it. TL;DR: The feeling of fraudulence isn't worth the fancy words.

 

[Kain Aldore]

Holy cow - did you record yourself because you were worried that you might get accused of using AI? Is this the current state that academia is in?

It's bad (I'm trying to get my major in History with a minor in photography.) To the point my professors use programs to check if Ai has been used.

I don't really think it has any application in writing at least for me to be honest. It's funny to bounce Ideas off chat GPT and watch it break down my strong points, and what could use work. Which I will add IS allowed. However having it directly write for us is obviously not. (I belive this differs from school to school) and I've used it like twice, but it can have varying effects, some people do better with it.
I don't. I think at least my own writing is often far better without external input. So far so that all I'll do in peer review is have classmates check for grammatic errors. But TLDR yes AI is a very controversial and heavily monitored subject in academics right now.

However on the other hand it does have it's place for me here. I'm a writer, not an artist, I also live on my own with a roommate while I work full time with college classes. I don't really have the funds to spend on commissions, so yeah. AI Art, as long as it's not monetized or used for financial gain/street cred. Is perfectly acceptable in my mind.

Edit: To add I have tried it here, but as the author of this thread mentioned it just can't keep up with the Idea I have of Kain, and more Importantly my other characters. And when I've put something in it needs to be practically rewritten entirely to match my vision of my characters. The "A Beat" Being the funniest thing I've seen In a while to the point I'll add it for fun. But yeah, it just can't really keep up with my own humor I use for Kain.

 

[Azurine Varek]

AI Art, as long as it's not monetized or used for financial gain/street cred. Is perfectly acceptable in my mind.

I agree with this completely. Like back in the days when I first started, everyone knew that the edits we made putting differnt face pieces together to make something for an avatar wasn't of our own hand drawing and no one was making money from doing it. We did it for the sake of our own little hobby and immersion. When someone tried to pass it off as their own work without making sure to state that it was an edit (and yeah sure editing takes a lot so you can take compliments for knowing how to do that skill without saying 'yeah I drew this thing'), it was sus behavior.

All AI image generation has done there is enable a program to do some of the most difficult and time consuming aspects of that process for us and blend pieces better. As long as we're not making money off of it, using it for capital gain, trying to pass it off as our own original work, then I don't see it as being harmful.

The moment it's used in monetary gain is the moment I draw a line. I 100% protest the use of AI in movies/video games/animation/corprate adds/etc. because at that point it's not just a little hobby or reference tool and is actively putting people out of buisness, and that's bullcrap. Always stand with the people being used.

On the other hand, don't think people using a tool as a reference or for a hobby should be deamonized as "encouraging companies to monetize generation" because its a similar thing to saying "that fiction book should be banned because people claimed they hurt others because of it" or "war simulation video games should be banned because they encourage violence". The bad faith acts of a few rotten eggs doesn't equal the acts of the majority who want to see proper regulation so that it can be used for personal things/hobbies/references without it hurting others. People and (especially) companies should be held accountable for their own wrong actions without completely destroying what could potentially be helpful to others in a properly regulated enviornment.