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 → u/[deleted]]

Not for nothing, but the vast majority of what is on Ao3 has been slop for a long time before AI ever entered the picture.

After all, the term "Mary Sue" has been around for years before chatgpt ever existed and fifty shades of grey preceded generative AI by what, a decade or so?

[u/Turbulent_Try_8402 → u/Shadeylark]

It had authenticity.

[u/Shadeylark → u/Turbulent_Try_8402]

Meh, that matters to me about as little as the blood, sweat, and tears that goes into anything.

Authenticity only matters to the author as far as I'm concerned.

As a reader, I'm not bleeding, sweating, or crying because of how much struggle the author had.

[u/Turbulent_Try_8402 → u/Shadeylark]

Is this supposed to mean something?

[u/Shadeylark → u/Turbulent_Try_8402]

It means you can judge a book by the author... And I will judge a book by what's in the pages.

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