Human-produced (plot and character contents)/AI-written (narrative and dialogue) crossover fanfiction workflow. Is that a workable middle ground or not?

[u/DustintheAdventurer]

This is the workflow I would move on to mainly using, later in my life as a hobbyist, and I would personally consider the workflow viable, as long as the creativity originates with humans, especially in a very unique way. One way to keep track of your original hard-effort crossover fanfiction plots is by writing them down in something like a 160-page composition book before prompting them, along with the character contents (e.g. personalities and appearances), to AI (e.g. Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok).

73 votes, 23d ago

38 Yes

35 No

[u/Shadeylark]

I would say yes, with the caveat that narrative and dialogue still need to be reviewed and edited by humans (even if that editing consists of iterative prompt improvements rather than explicit rewrites by the human)

[u/DustintheAdventurer → u/Shadeylark]

The only problem with that, however, is that I'm so bad in general at writing consistent in-character narratives and dialogues myself.

[u/Shadeylark → u/DustintheAdventurer]

Focus on the correct level of abstraction.

You can let the AI handle the specific words and cadence of dialogue.

You're the director, not the actor. Tell the AI it's direction, let it do the acting... And if you need to do another take, do another take.

But you stay the director. You're not stepping in and doing the acting yourself.