Since this is my second rodeo, I wanted to lay something out casually before anyone else does.
1. Word Count: My first book "How to Fall in Love with Eyes" was flagged for AI usage. It was said that AI usage often fills the scene with useless detail to fill up the word count. Not judging anyone, but many writers only have chapters that extend to one scene and only 500-1000 words. My chapters always have more than 2000 words with almost always five scenes or more with some exceptions. I won't need to fill in with unnecessary detail because my chapters are already detailed. And besides, it is just how I write as I grew up reading many classical novels that used lots of sentences for wordplay. So if anyone thinks that a scene might've used AI to increase word count, it didn't. It was intended to be written that way. This is why some of my scenes have more details while others have less. Some just require more detail and others don't.
2. Wordplay: I am big on using a thesaurus to find synonyms. It's also always a learning experience as more often than not, I learn words that might be used in different contexts, but that does not mean that the usage of these words was to fill up word count. Whether I use 'before' or 'prior to', it's almost always a coincidence since I usually write really fast and barely edit afterward (it seems daunting). I've addressed this before, but since English is my second language, I'm more of a perfectionist and do not settle for less, hence why the usage of a million words to provide context for a burning candle.
3. AI usage: Now, I won't be a liar and say that I don't use AI. I do. I paraphrase something if I'm struggling. Use grammar checks and most importantly, I use AI to check whether what I've written has the context that I want or not. Many times, through reading my own content or others, I've seen that some words can be taken into different contexts and the meaning of the sentence can be changed. Also, I've never seen AI add context from its own. If I wrote that a candle was flickering while the characters were hugging, I would explain why I wrote that the candle was flickering. But how the heck would an AI model know why the candle was flickering when I haven't explained why? It could have a meaning of it could've been written just because.
4. Common problems: I think since many people write using AI, it's either that AI has become the standard or that people think that everything is AI-generated. I wrote a short story for my school magazine and the editor sent it back by saying that it was flagged as AI-generated. My teacher was kind enough to send it back and get it checked manually and the story had never been written or spoken about anywhere before. Tell me, if it was AI-generated, wouldn't it have plagiarized from somewhere? How was it that through five manual sources, it was found that the story wasn't plagiarized and something even remotely similar never existed, but because of a single AI detector, my creativity was declared plagiarism?
5. Final verdict: I went on a tangent but I just wanted to tell everyone who reads my book, yes I write like Shakespeare, and no, it's not because I use AI that copies Shakespeare, it's just that I grew up reading that. Thank you if you read this.
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