It’s 2025. Spend time on any social media and you’ll find artists, authors and others protesting in many ways about using AI for anything. They have a lot of arguments - some quite persuasive. So, given I want to post stories here I’ll lay my own stance out here for my own work.
I’m enthuastic user of chatgpt, claude, perplexity and lmstudio for local models. They’re great for a lot of things and prompted well can even write passable stories. However, for me, that’s not what they’re for: writing fiction.
After my experiment with a story called The Keepers, by ChatGPT, I felt it was an easy way to have new fiction made for me if I really wanted it but a poor way to experience writing. I’m not a dedicated author of any form, but the times I’ve wanted to write some fiction, the driver is trying to experience the world of the characters and ideas that decide to inhabit my imagination for a while.
That’s the sole driver.
So, any and all blame for the fiction on this site, other than ordinary grammar/spell check assistance (not often enough!), lies in my own grey matter only.