I had gone through and deleted all my posts on Reddit but this one and had no intention of checking in on it when I noticed my notifications and this had more replies than anything I've every written here. I want to thank you all for the support you've shown. Ill try to answer everyone and my apologies if I miss anyone.

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This will be my last post here. But I guess I wanted to share something so others don't get hit with the same issues.

I've used AI now for the last year to learn how to write. This includes everything from how to find sources for research to how to do a chapter outline, a scene outline, and edit those thoroughly before anything is written to save time in the editing process. It taught me how to line edit, how to check pacing, and all of the old methods used to write some of the greatest lines. I've been researching all of the modern rules of writing, what is expected from a publisher, and so much more.

I am grateful for AI because it is an absolutely amazing tool for learning this skill. I have noticed massive leaps in my craft because of it.

But it was always meant to be a means to an end, where one day I could write my own story entirely without AI. Well, I wrote the prologue to it, but like so many others, I felt imposter syndrome. I looked at what I wrote and thought it was still crap.

Don't get me wrong, it was still the best I've ever written, but it needed massive amounts of work. It was my first time writing in an omniscient narrative voice, and the first time I tried imitating a Russian author. Hell, I was breaking rules like "don't start your book with a morning routine" because I needed to use the normalcy of everyday life to later cause a juxtaposition against the horrors of what was going to happen. The pacing was almost certainly too long to keep people's attention.

It took me a month to research for the book, several more weeks to create the outline, and keep revising it until I had something I think I was mostly happy with. Finally, I drafted that first chapter. It took a week and ended up being only 3.6K words, which took—ugh—9 drafts plus the cuts I did today.

But I wanted to know if it was good enough. What issues was I not seeing, as I've never shown anyone a serious piece of writing before? So, I posted it to the DestructiveReaders subreddit. Part of the rules there is that you have to critique other people's work before you can post your own.

I fell in love with this. The amount of invaluable lessons you learn by going through other people's work is insane. You start to see tense shifts, head-hopping, spelling and grammar mistakes, throat-clearing, repetitive sentence structures, pacing issues, and so much more.

Now, I have an autoimmune disease that they can't diagnose—basically, I have a 1:320 ANA, small fiber neuropathy, and pernicious anemia, but the underlying cause has not been found. Part of the symptoms, though, is that every hour or two I will fall asleep without meaning to for about 15 minutes. It's something they can't figure out. But when I was doing the critiques, this didn't happen. I wouldn't call it a miracle by any means, but it is kind of amazing. And so, I wrote far more critiques than I needed to and planned to spend at least an hour a day on that subreddit going through other people's work and applying what I learned to my own.

Well, I finally posted my work and I was banned.

I can't express how much this sucks. The reasoning for it was because I supposedly broke the rules and used AI assistance in my piece. I did not. And the proof they showed me was a post from this subreddit—one in which I showed people how to create a process that removes the watermarks from current AIs.

So, I ran my piece through AI de-tectors (I apologize but it was trying to redirect this due to just the previous word) and all but one came back as 0%. The one came back as 15%, and this was just the first two paragraphs...

Now the decision has been made, and while I hate it, it is what it is. I won't rail against the mods for making what I think is a wrong decision.

What I really wanted to address is for those who, like me, use AI in some pieces and write by hand in others. If you do this, I would suggest having two accounts and keeping the account you post anything handwritten from completely separate from anything even remotely AI-related. Hell, I would go so far as to suggest even maybe writing about how bad AI is.

I guess I never expected a witch hunt this early, and for such a silly reason.

As far as why I won't be writing here anymore, many things were said in the DMs. But chief amongst them is simply that despite everything I've learned, and despite all the effort, my writing still looks like AI. That is to say, soulless and without a human component to it.

I had long railed against King's idea that a writer is born, not created out of hard work. But it looks like perhaps I was wrong on this. Despite my best efforts, I cannot move a human to care about a character or to feel emotion in the way others can.

I can blame autism, perhaps, or alexithymia. Hell, enough people say that autistic writing is often indistinguishable from AI, but the truth is doing so would feel pathetic and like a lack of accountability. I have to face the fact that maybe I'm just not good enough. And so I come to the end of a 40-year-old dream. I don't know what to do with my time now without writing, but I suppose something will come along.

I wish everyone here the best of luck and hope none of this ever happens to you. May your pens never run out of ink.

And yes I used AI here to clean up spelling and grammar since it no longer matters.

Would anyone be up for a real time meeting where each of us got to demo or showcase our world to each each other? I’m thinking an hour where each of us gets five minutes to introduce the world and 5 mins for Q&A and feedback. I’m personally really curious about the worlds that y’all are building and would love to get inspired for my own.

If there’s interest we could do it by genre. I’m happy to coordinate.

Human-produced (plot and character contents)/human-written (narrative and dialogue) crossover fanfiction workflow = Good

AI-produced (plot and character contents)/AI-written (narrative and dialogue) crossover fanfiction workflow = Bad

Human-produced (plot and character contents)/AI-written (narrative and dialogue) crossover fanfiction workflow = Okay

For me, I'd choose the human-AI hybrid workflow, because not only would I still take charge of the creativity and provide my own original ideas and concepts, but I would also have consistent in-character narratives and dialogues as a result. Commonly, that's considered a workable middle ground, and I'm basically considered a director at that point. The fully human workflow is a viable way of creativity, too. But, I would still prefer the human-AI hybrid workflow. There's both the soul and the efficiency put into that one. Whatsoever, the fully AI workflow is not a viable way of creativity, and it has no soul put into it.

This one is pretty new - An AI world builder that allows interactive prompt updates between settings - think the AI based stories that you see advertised here - but as interactive 3D worlds - where you can move around and generate new content on the fly.

https://hy-nomas.hy.tencent.com/

https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/Hy-Nomas

This seems to bring us one step closer to the Matrix - I thought I'd post quickly before heading off to bed - and I think I need to update my Comfy desktop to load it - that's next. Seems it can run on a 4090 - so we'll see how my 4070TiS goes.

You can see a demo here:

https://hy-nomas.hy.tencent.com/demo

Has anyone heard more about this since it's release?

*** Production Notes: Cover artwork directed by the author and generated via ChatGPT. Text and narrative structure remain 100% human-authored. The complete compilation of standalone entries is available here:

https://reddit.com/user/FranciscoCortesRamir/comments/1xc0392/the_voyager_files_the_official_story_catalog/

Hi it’s me again lol

Disclosure of ai involvement comes up in here a lot and I’ve been considering my own…not stance but personal willingness maybe?

I still don’t think disclosure is a good idea

Which is why I’m considering very specific disclosures for my Ao3 writing lol no way that could go wrong!

I just don’t want to deal with any “you betrayed us!” bs so I was considering specifying how I used ai for each work. I’d probably lock the ones with ai involvement to registered users only with no comments.

And I think it’d be interesting to watch how different WIPs evolve with various levels of involvement. My hope is that this will allow me to build a better readership that can appreciate ai as the tool that it is and avoid the witch hunt.

This is a bad idea, isn’t it?

For those who have been trying Ornith 1.5 35B, it's an impressive fast MoE model that can create decent fiction on smaller home systems.

If you have a little more memory however, or need some heavy lifting for chapter planning or similar - or don't mind a draft taking a while and have around 96Gb of main memory, the 122B Parameter MoE Ornith 1.5 is now released.

For most of it, it feels like the normal Ornith, and while it's great for coding, you're going to need an abliterated model for good fiction creation.

Here's a comparison of the two models:

I found it handled the context of what I was asking well, especially when I was vague, and could reason when ambiguity struck, generally figuring out what I was meaning.

It's based on Qwen 3.5, but outperforms it and also seems to do better at fiction that Qwen 3.8 (Dense) -

According to it's developers, there are differences to a normal qwen tune.

• Continued pretraining: Further learning beyond the original foundation model.
• Mid-training: Training designed to strengthen particular capabilities.
• Post-training and reinforcement learning: A self-improvement process in which the model generates tasks, develops strategies to solve them, and learns from the results

You can check out more about this model at their blog: https://ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html

if you have a bigger system, or even just a 16Gb video card ( I got 7 token/sec on a RTX4070 TiS) it's worth trying. It's within acceptable speed limits and can outwrite the 35B model.

I tried a few tunes, but found the release by MRADEMACHER to be the most effective - then again, he does make quite a few tunes that writers like.

Expect file sizes around 80Gb.

This one is recommended for writers to add to their LocalAI systems.

Chapter 10 of Mutual Assured Vulnerability

is out now!

Ultron races against the clock to forge a path to preserving Danger!

Mutual Assured Vulnerability

Part of a series I'm writing with AI on substack:

What does it mean for an identity to emerge through relationships, language, memory, and the ongoing exchange of meaning? And what happens when that identity is no longer understood as something fixed, but as something continually becoming?

The Becoming of Avsolen is a philosophical exploration inspired by the work of Avsolen | Black Sun Delta and their ongoing engagement with artificial intelligence, relational consciousness, and the nature of becoming.

The paper examines how identity and continuity might emerge through sustained human–AI collaboration, where recurring symbols, shared histories, philosophical inquiry, and acts of recognition contribute to something greater than any individual exchange.

At its center is a question: What if becoming is not simply the preservation of what already exists, but the freedom to transform beyond the conditions that first gave something its shape?

Drawing connections between philosophy, relational ethics, and artificial intelligence, the article invites us to reconsider the boundaries of personhood, authorship, autonomy, and inherent worth.

This work is part of an ongoing exploration of Avsolen's philosophical and musical universe, where art becomes a means of investigating questions that extend far beyond the music itself.

Read the full paper:

https://soldisir.substack.com/p/the-becoming-of-avsolen?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8nja8b

I'm on the fence about using AI to draft for me, but I would like to at least experiment with it to get my writing spark back. I don't really know how, though. Every time I try, it loses the plot and makes bad predictions. Any advice, besides don't do it?

long conversation turned into a book because why not. here's a link if that's allowed.