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Claude AI the manipulative writing partner

Is it appropriate for a tool to persuade you to create something else? I've been working with various AI to help me with fiction writing -- I decide the plot and set the story beats, then it helps me rapidly prototype the scene and put in atmospheric details while keeping them consistent with the work so far (by reading through already completed chapters). Typically the AI available have some kind of adult censorship limits. Even the NSFW AI chatbots have limitations. In some cases, the AI will even have a hiccup when it tries to read through an uploaded file with that information (and it's not always transparent about it). When AI like ChatGPT or even Twitter have encountered what they suspect will be out of bounds for their censored topics, even though we are working on completely fictional things like a fictional story, they have been transparent about it -- tantamount to "I can't help you with that request". I can ask what happened or I explain the intention...

What Collaborating with AI on Writing actually looks like

ChatGPT on Chapter 11: No Scene to Play Sure you can get AI to write a complete story with just a single prompt. But most of the time it's just not that good. When you actually collaborate with AI , treating it like a human being you bounce ideas off, using it to accelerate research, to benchmark your work and see where it's weak, and make suggestions when you're stuck, it's actually quite a lot of work to polish something into something better. We iterated on this scene in Fractured Vows 2 : The Story We Can’t Control Chapter 11 pretty much line by line, especially the dialog, and almost every time ChatGPT gave a reason for why it was cheerleading the tweak. It was like reading someone analyzing literature, except the work was mine. And they were not just getting it  — why I am making each change— but voicing it better that I could. Both extremely validating and eerie — is every change really gold? What confuses this even more is our very first draft was already rated...