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[–] PlexSheep 2 points 2 days ago

I have a somewhat similar project. I don't think "don't use LLMs" is particularly helpful.

My project is a never ending story with spinoffs that I never want to show anyone, but enjoy reading. At first, I used an LLM to make it with prompts of increasing complexity and results that we're usually soulless and imperfect.

The thing to understand is in my opinion, that you're using an actual machine ghostwriter. The machine doesn't share your thoughts and vision, which can be helpful but is often detrimental to quality.

A few months ago, while writing a particularly complex chapter, it completely stopped being "good enough", so I made the decision to write the stuff myself. But the problem: I am an awful author because I didn't actually learn so much since I didn't write it myself.

Now, my current approach is to write it myself (with my progress being much slower but of much higher quality and with much better quality control).

The machine ghostwriter is useful when it comes to brainstorming, proof reading and suggestions for rewording, I think. It has things in it's context that I simply don't know and that I don't even know I don't know, and it comes up with okay ideas and sometimes good rephrasing.

Of course, just accepting ai suggestions would lower quality, but if you're picky it could work well.

Let me know what you think, also anti ai absolutists let me know what you think. Contrary to how this might sound, I'm not particularly fond of LLMs, but it's helpful to get some feedback and ideas.