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PaperclipPerfector  5mo ago (text post)   2620 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 18, 2025

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Do you use LLMs when writing? If so, what percentage of your novel has been written by LLMs?

I'm an early adopter of LLMs, but using them to "write" the thing would be counterproductive. If I had to give an estimate, less than 1%.

I use LLMs for:

  1. Editing
  2. Brainstorming
  3. Research
  4. As an alpha reader

Research is the big one. I remember, back in the GPT-4 days, I asked it to help make a certain Jamaican character's patois more realistic. Didn't think much of it, till six months later, when an actual Jamaican reader left a comment saying that he was really impressed at how authentic it was, and asked me if I'd asked a native speaker.

Writers are often advised to write what they know, and it's remarkable how easy it is to know more these days. I used to trawl Wikipedia articles and crib notes back in the day, now you can just ask an alien intelligence.

Hmm.. What else? There are half a dozen chapters I illustrated with the help of AI image generators. More of a novelty than anything, but it was super cool that it was even an option.

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