I don’t think you’re a fraud. AI is a great tool to use, especially when you don’t have the resources to get your content reviewed before publishing. I don’t use it to do my writing, but will use it to help me “rate” my structure and clarity, and then I edit based on feedback. Haha I might use AI help me generate my titles though.
I’m pro AI / automation - I work in data and technology and it helps tremendously when building processes and automations. I try to limit it with writing my publications bc I want a break and want to exercise that creative muscle on my own.
I think I’m on the opposite spectrum as you in my viewpoints, but as a writer, I’ll say this….
I can tell these articles are written by AI because of the tell tale cadences and sentence structures. It doesn’t sound like how I remember YOU speaking. They sound like the same voicing I’m reading in other avenues used by AI.
Of course, please keep doing what makes you joyful!! BUT I would rather read typos and stumbly sentences because I know they’re real and authentically from your brilliant mind. I’d take that over polished bot language any day!
As for art, that’s a whole different topic 😂
But please keep in mind, you cannot claim any copyright or ownership over what AI has created, even if the base idea is yours!
You've been honest with us. You deserve honesty back, so I'm sitting down at the computer to properly give you my real thoughts. I never could write out a long reply on my phone (I'm old lol).
I have a confession too.
To me, it's been obvious from the first time I read one of your articles. There, *I* said it lol
But let me be clear: *I do not judge you.* I get it. Writing articles like that, week after week, they take *time*. Time we don't have. Time we could spend writing another page of the actual script, or drawing a sketch (in my case).
... or doing some random irl thing that's due, like a work report, or the laundry. Whatever. I feel that pressure too.
My problem with your articles isn't that I don't think they're yours. Of course they are. The world building, the stories behind the designs, the character dynamics. You came up with all that.
My problem is that the articles you've been putting out sound so, SOOO much like AI slop that I... don't enjoy reading them. I read the first one, saw the patterns immediately, gave it a polite/supportive like, and moved on. I only skimmed the second one, then I started skipping them altogether, giving them likes on occasion to try to show support anyway.
I didn't say anything because, like I said, I do want to support you, your project and what I can see you're trying to do here. I did NOT want to be the guy replying "this sounds like AI". Ugh.
But I'm glad you've come clean. And I don't think you need to stop using AI to produce these (obviously that's not your intention with this article, but to introduce the AI images you've been making). What I *would* recommend is being much, much MUCH more thorough with your prompting, for starters. And much more thorough with injecting your voice into it.
Because you say you go through it line by line after it's generated, but honestly? Real talk, as the kids say? I don't feel a human voice. At all. And that's the thing that you need to take back from these.
Having used the same tools for years, I see the AI patterns and feel the "voice" instantly. I feel a guy who brain-dumped his thoughts in voice mode and told the robot to write the article based on that. Copy. Paste. Post.
That's what it feels like on my end.
I recommend writing a full article by yourself. No outside help. Take the time to do ONE. Really put your true voice into it. Edit it, clean it up, polish it nicely. By yourself.
Then prompt it to study your writing style and voice, and to preserve it. That, at least, would be a start.
A minimum-effort way to improve this might also be to include in your prompt "severely limit em-dashes and the 'it's not this; it's that' pattern" that AI has ruined for us and many of use have learned to cringe at.
And when you do start to post your AI images, be sure to 1. mention it's AI generated, and 2. state your intention for these. Because I'm guessing you don't want to make the manga itself with AI; you're just playing around with the tool and DREAMING. I do it too! I can DM you a few AI Salvadors I've generated... anime, live-action, my own animated sketches, even live-action videos I made with Grok 🤩
None of them are going to be part of my eventual final product, but MAN, it's fun to play with and dream 😀😀
Keep at it. Keep figuring it out. And FIGHT to keep YOUR VOICE in your project, because it's THERE. You just have to find the balance between the things your assistant can do for you to save you time, and the things you need to really put *yourself* into.
Because THAT'S where the REAL connection with your audience happens.
You're not a fraud. We all have our own processes. I didn't learn how to properly draw until I was around 21. There are some books I used to help accelerate it, but anyone can draw. It took me over a year to get over stick figures.
I intend on using the concepts I generated through AI as well as references for my own work when I start drawing it. I think it saves time and helps you not be depressed about not being able to continue without having seen what your vision might look like yet.
I don’t think you’re a fraud. AI is a great tool to use, especially when you don’t have the resources to get your content reviewed before publishing. I don’t use it to do my writing, but will use it to help me “rate” my structure and clarity, and then I edit based on feedback. Haha I might use AI help me generate my titles though.
I’m pro AI / automation - I work in data and technology and it helps tremendously when building processes and automations. I try to limit it with writing my publications bc I want a break and want to exercise that creative muscle on my own.
Hi Drue! AI is such a topic, right?
I think I’m on the opposite spectrum as you in my viewpoints, but as a writer, I’ll say this….
I can tell these articles are written by AI because of the tell tale cadences and sentence structures. It doesn’t sound like how I remember YOU speaking. They sound like the same voicing I’m reading in other avenues used by AI.
Of course, please keep doing what makes you joyful!! BUT I would rather read typos and stumbly sentences because I know they’re real and authentically from your brilliant mind. I’d take that over polished bot language any day!
As for art, that’s a whole different topic 😂
But please keep in mind, you cannot claim any copyright or ownership over what AI has created, even if the base idea is yours!
AI is here to stay, so it’s better to learn from it than grow.
Check DMs 👀
You've been honest with us. You deserve honesty back, so I'm sitting down at the computer to properly give you my real thoughts. I never could write out a long reply on my phone (I'm old lol).
I have a confession too.
To me, it's been obvious from the first time I read one of your articles. There, *I* said it lol
But let me be clear: *I do not judge you.* I get it. Writing articles like that, week after week, they take *time*. Time we don't have. Time we could spend writing another page of the actual script, or drawing a sketch (in my case).
... or doing some random irl thing that's due, like a work report, or the laundry. Whatever. I feel that pressure too.
My problem with your articles isn't that I don't think they're yours. Of course they are. The world building, the stories behind the designs, the character dynamics. You came up with all that.
My problem is that the articles you've been putting out sound so, SOOO much like AI slop that I... don't enjoy reading them. I read the first one, saw the patterns immediately, gave it a polite/supportive like, and moved on. I only skimmed the second one, then I started skipping them altogether, giving them likes on occasion to try to show support anyway.
I didn't say anything because, like I said, I do want to support you, your project and what I can see you're trying to do here. I did NOT want to be the guy replying "this sounds like AI". Ugh.
But I'm glad you've come clean. And I don't think you need to stop using AI to produce these (obviously that's not your intention with this article, but to introduce the AI images you've been making). What I *would* recommend is being much, much MUCH more thorough with your prompting, for starters. And much more thorough with injecting your voice into it.
Because you say you go through it line by line after it's generated, but honestly? Real talk, as the kids say? I don't feel a human voice. At all. And that's the thing that you need to take back from these.
Having used the same tools for years, I see the AI patterns and feel the "voice" instantly. I feel a guy who brain-dumped his thoughts in voice mode and told the robot to write the article based on that. Copy. Paste. Post.
That's what it feels like on my end.
I recommend writing a full article by yourself. No outside help. Take the time to do ONE. Really put your true voice into it. Edit it, clean it up, polish it nicely. By yourself.
Then prompt it to study your writing style and voice, and to preserve it. That, at least, would be a start.
A minimum-effort way to improve this might also be to include in your prompt "severely limit em-dashes and the 'it's not this; it's that' pattern" that AI has ruined for us and many of use have learned to cringe at.
And when you do start to post your AI images, be sure to 1. mention it's AI generated, and 2. state your intention for these. Because I'm guessing you don't want to make the manga itself with AI; you're just playing around with the tool and DREAMING. I do it too! I can DM you a few AI Salvadors I've generated... anime, live-action, my own animated sketches, even live-action videos I made with Grok 🤩
None of them are going to be part of my eventual final product, but MAN, it's fun to play with and dream 😀😀
Keep at it. Keep figuring it out. And FIGHT to keep YOUR VOICE in your project, because it's THERE. You just have to find the balance between the things your assistant can do for you to save you time, and the things you need to really put *yourself* into.
Because THAT'S where the REAL connection with your audience happens.
Keep at it! 💪🏼
Wow! I appreciate your honesty. This was challenging and encouraging at the same time!
You're not a fraud. We all have our own processes. I didn't learn how to properly draw until I was around 21. There are some books I used to help accelerate it, but anyone can draw. It took me over a year to get over stick figures.
I intend on using the concepts I generated through AI as well as references for my own work when I start drawing it. I think it saves time and helps you not be depressed about not being able to continue without having seen what your vision might look like yet.
Keep going!
Coming back to this one tomorrow Drue.