Not sure if this is the right forum but here goes.
As a retired academic I always thought of myself as a non fiction writer but often wondered if I had a novel in me.
A few days ago I wrote a short passage off the top of my head, About a dozen sentences. It was a fictional situation about a woman who is married to a very powerful man.
I decided to run it through my usual LMM (co-pilot) for ideas and the results were really scary. The AI generated the outline of a complete chapter or short story with character outlines, names etc from my piece. I asked if it had it taken the material from some online literature, book, series etc and it said no. The response was that AI cannot create. However they can build on what someone has already created and extrapolate a plot line, which is what it had done. It was written in my literary style and read like something I could well have written.
I tutor post grad students as a job. Mostly international, they know their subject but fall down sometimes when it comes to writing in formal academic style or structuring arguments. Sometimes they need help with referencing and constructing a bibliography. In other words I help them polish their thesis for formal examination.
This is more or less what the AI was doing with me. I am now very divided over my use of AI to write fiction although I use it daily in my work with the students.
How do those of you who write creative fiction feel about this?
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