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AI AND YOUR WRITING

                                 AI AND YOUR WRITING

At a recent meeting of a writer’s group I belonged to we had an interesting discussion on the use of AI in one’s writing. One of the authors present was having a problem in determining if the question of using AI should be considered should come into play when considering a publisher. The problem considered what percentage of the manuscript was AI assisted.

I use Duotrope, a website I have highly recommended in the past, to locate publishers. Many of the publishers I have referenced make it clear that they will not accept any work generated by AI. The question raised in the above-mentioned meeting was what percentage of the work involving the use of AI was used.

Here is my approach in the use of AI in my work. I use a version Word in the writing of manuscripts. Quite often the program suggests a word to use in place of the one I did use or suggests punctuation to use. With word selection I consider the use of the word in the sentence under construction. When it comes to punctuation I’m fairly sure that AI knows more about punctuation than I do. The only exception is in the use of commas. However, I never let AI change an entire sentence, or for that matter, a thought going into my wort. I fear if you start letting AI interfere with entire sentences or the meaning you want your work to possess my style, for what it’s worth, is in jeopardy of being changed from what I have demonstrated in the past or the meaning I intend to get across.

So here is, I think, the problem in considering what you need to indicate in your use of AI. If you let AI determine the use of an occasional word or punctuation, does that qualify when a publisher asks you whether AI was used in writing your work. What percentage does the use of AI qualify in your admitting the use of AI? AI has infiltrated our society, and for better or worse, if you use a program to generate your work, has the use of words or punctuation require to say that AI was used to represent an admission to publishers.?

What do you think?AI AND YOUR WRITING

April 27, 2026 at 8:40 pm Leave a comment