[Stylist] AI and Writing

[Sherry Gomes]

Oh yes. And I don't use it except for ideas of how to describe body language, such as how someone looks if they are angry or sad. And all of it is consistent with what I've read all my life in books when characters are feeling things. So, I don't use the AI words at all, just look at the ideas it gave me, and then figure out if I want to use any of it, but always in my own words. It gives long descriptions, and you'd never want to just copy and paste it.



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Hi Sherry, 
Thanks for sharing that! If you use AI to describe a sighted character, do you then change the wording on it a little bit, so that it's in your own words? I'm just curious! It's a fine line because the idea is often our own, but the actual words are not. 
Thanks, 
Vejas

> On Jul 18, 2023, at 12:21, Sherry Gomes via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> I wouldn't use AI to create the scene. But I have had fun asking it to describe some visual things for me, particularly body language and emotion cues. I've saved some of those things to use in my writing, because I tend to write in multiple points of view, and for blind characters I use little visual description, but the sighted characters need to have it.
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> Hi, 
> I hope everyone is doing well!
> I wanted to share with you all that I have been playingaround creating scenes with an AI app. What I would do is, I would tell the app what I wanted to happen in the scene, and the app would create the dialogue. As I played around with it more, I realized I had a new cast of characters that I could use for a story that I could write myself. But as I started actually writing the story for real yesterday, I realized that because I'd created the characters with AI, my language and dialogue were a little simplistic, just like AI's was.
> So I think it's fine to use AI to generate some ideas, but when writing the actual story, it's good to beware of the language you're using!
> This is just my personal opinion, but I wanted to share it because it hasn't been talked about on this list much.
> Vejas 
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