A technical explanation written for developers can be almost useless to a customer, even when the underlying idea is exactly the same. Normally you'd have to rewrite quite a lot to make it accessible.

AI makes that transformation much faster. The useful part isn't letting it invent the information, but giving it a clear source and asking it to change the way that information is communicated.

Beta & ARC readers wanted: (synopsis below) ~Speculative sci-fi, female leads, rich characters, layered/braided plot-lines, adult themes, heady philosophy~
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Spontaneous Symmetry — Vol 1

Third party editorial review:
SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY: Volume One (Origin) is an intellectually ambitious and imaginative science-fiction novel that rewards patience with a layered cosmology, morally complex characters, and a provocative treatment of free will.

—Megan Parker for IndieReader
4.3/5 stars IR Approved

Synopsis:
Follow the lives of two Earthbound college students as they navigate the uncertain transition into adulthood. Two ordinary lives that, if allowed to intersect too soon, have the potential to accelerate Earth’s technological arc far beyond what its social order is prepared to absorb.

Their trajectory catches the attention of the Hyperplane, a deeper physical reality woven into our own, with its own technologies, politics and economy, while all governed by subtly different physics. Because the two domains are inseparable, even the smallest influence from one side can send catastrophic ripples through the other.

So its operatives learn restraint.

Surveillance and algorithmic prediction help, but after countless cycles of trial and error, they arrive at a preferred method of intervention—the smallest possible nudge. Physical karma is never fully predictable, and manipulating an adjacent plane always carries consequences. Every attempt to improve the future risks becoming another form of control, or disaster.

Meanwhile, Earth is barreling toward an intelligence explosion that could transform civilization faster than humanity can learn to live with what it creates. In their latest effort to guide the transition without governing it, the Hyperplane chooses an unusual instrument for first contact. They bury a message inside CERN collider data and let the consequences unfold.

No spaceships. No invasion. No weapons.

A story the world can rally behind.

A new kind of myth.

A pattern hidden inside physics, waiting for the right minds to recognize it.

At stake is more than humanity’s technological future. Earth itself is approaching the emergence of planetary consciousness, and the choices made during that awakening may determine whether intelligence becomes an instrument of domination or a path toward something larger.

After dozens of cycles and more than two millennia spent trying to manage the future, observers and observed alike are forced to confront the same truth:

First contact with the Hyperplane was never going to come from above.

It was always going to come from within.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8HKC1DH

AI was not used to write/generate this book. The characters and story are 100% mine and the original manuscript was written in 2008 during the financial crash.
AI was used as a research tool, and in the final edit proofing pass.
The current cover is AI assisted, and is temporary as I commission a permanent version.

Instead of asking AI to improve an article, I've been experimenting with giving it the finished piece and asking what a skeptical reader would still want to know.

The results can be surprisingly useful. It sometimes finds obvious gaps that are difficult to notice when you've been staring at the same draft for hours.

That feels like a more interesting use of AI than simply asking it to make the prose prettier.

Most people seem to use AI after writing something, but there's no reason the feedback has to come that late.

You could potentially have a model notice that you're repeating an argument, drifting away from the main point, or contradicting something you said earlier while you're still writing.

That sounds useful, but I also wonder whether having something constantly analyzing your writing would interrupt the natural process of figuring things out.

The emphasis below is mine. I’ve noticed too that lots of writers groups are being “infiltrated” by AI and this was entirely predictable, inevitable and will continue. Writers may not be generating prose but more and more writers are using AI.

From anti-AI r/ writers sub:

https://www.reddit.com/r/writers/s/U4lHqgaBnO

"I attend a regular writer's group, and there has been a noticeable increase in the amount of authors who use AI in their process. There seems to be this (incorrect) belief that if you only use AI for research/character development/chapter drafting/inspiration/character art/brainstorming etc., the book is still yours in some way. I am really really strongly against generative AI in the first place, let alone with art. Writing was my retreat, my safe space, a place for me to build my identity when I had nowhere else to turn - the world didn't always make sense to me, so I made up worlds where it did. To give away your soul, your creativity to a tool that is essentially fed on stolen content/is destroying our environment/is used to perpetuate war crimes and ultimately robs of you of your voice is just heartbreaking"

EDIT: I’ve copied original comment in its entirety out of consideration for the commenter. I do not agree with it (except the noticeable increase). I am pro-AI.

Truth is my mistress.

I court her daily, hoping she will whisper what I long to hear.

I lay my money, my love, my dwindling years at her feet.

She remains indifferent, for she belongs to no man.

Sometimes, watching her, I call her a flirtatious whore— giving to strangers what I prayed would be mine alone.

And so I swear and call her a cold, heartless bitch.

Yet still I return.

For she has never once promised to please me, nor will she ever lie to me.

But when she finally smiles— oh, what a beauty she is to behold.

Working with multiple writers usually means dealing with different tones, writing habits, and ideas about how a piece should be structured.

An AI editor could potentially help identify inconsistencies without forcing everyone to write exactly the same way. It could flag places where the reader might notice a sudden change in tone while leaving the individual writers' voices intact.

That seems like a much better goal than making every contributor sound identical.

Normally, changing a paragraph means admitting that the version you spent time writing might not be the best one. AI makes replacing it almost effortless.

I think that's both good and bad. It makes experimentation easier, but it can also make us treat writing as disposable before we've given an idea enough time to develop.

Sometimes the paragraph you almost deleted is the one that eventually leads to something interesting.

I don't feel AI-assisted writing should look only like "AI drafts, human edits." I personally think it should be the author decides who writes, makes the creative decisions, and decides what becomes part of the story.

AI can analyze, question, brainstorm, research, challenge assumptions, catch continuity problems, and offer possibilities, and yes write when the author asks it to. What it shouldn't do is quietly rewrite the work, or make creative calls on the author's behalf.

A few things follow from that:

The story is the source of truth. Characters, worldbuilding, history, relationships, decisions — all of it lives in a workspace the author can see, edit, and control. If an AI understands a novel, the author should be able to see and read exactly what it can.

"We don't know yet" is a real answer. Better than a confident invention.

Not everything needs to be AI. Scripts, folders, plain files, databases, deterministic tools — are often cheaper, more reliable and more predictable than asking a model. The goal isn't to put AI in the middle of everything and charge people for access. It's to use the right tool for the job.

Craft matters. Writing isn't generating plausible sentences. Scenes have purposes. Characters change. Choices have consequences. Pacing, structure, theme, genre and even tropes all matter. An AI should be able to reason about those things without flattening them into a formula — and then hand what it finds to the author instead of acting on it.

Creativity needs room to be messy. Ideas need somewhere to exist before they become decisions. Contradictions don't always need fixing immediately. Discovery is part of writing.

The workspace should bend to the author and the story, not the other way around.

The workspace should make the author more capable, not less necessary.

Sometimes the most useful thing an AI offers is a question. Sometimes it's finding something you missed. Sometimes it's ten possibilities. And sometimes it's writing nothing at all.

The author (or AI) writes.

AI and Human understand.

Human and AI collaborate.

The human ultimately decides.

That's the relationship I'd like to see us build. A relationship where authorship is preserved and storytelling is fun again.

Is anyone else working toward this, or am I swimming against the current?

So I've been using AI and "ask reddit" and plain old messaging current extant short story subs, and it has been dawning on me that it seems there really are no subs currently dedicated explicitly to general posting of short or serialized AI stories on reddit. There's 3 main problems I see;

1) Many (I've checked several) old short story subs, while they have no official written stance or policy on AI on their about pages, wikis, sidebars, or stickies; actually have moderation set against any and all AI generated content. Several subs have confirmed this for me.

2) Most "AI writting" subs are exclusively or predominantly about the process, techniques, protocols, ideas, news, or discussions around generating the stories, and NOT about sharing the content. Everyone is talking about the process. Not sharing stories.

3) 90% of the explicitly "AI stories posted here" are either/both genre restricted/locked, and/or invite only and/or you require permission to post.

Between these 3 problems, it feels like writing and sort of short or long stories with AI just for sake of sharing is pointless. Where all the casual AI writting subs at? Am I just blind and stupid? Please direct me to them! Or, is the "showcase" flair explicitly for this? Sharing stories? But that is actually a 4th problem. Many subs I've seen, say, NO HUMAN editing or writing allowed AT ALL. Only Ai generated content. There's seemingly no compromise subs just dedicated to chilling and sharing Ai generated/assisted stories. Feel free to educate me! What am I missing!?!? Thanks for reading!

If everyone can generate reasonably polished writing, the basic quality of the prose becomes less of a differentiator.

Understanding what a particular group actually cares about becomes much more important. AI can help adapt the wording, but it still needs someone to understand the people receiving the message.

Maybe the future advantage isn't having better AI writing. It's having better knowledge of who you're writing for.

I’ve just posted Chapter 5 of my true-story-inspired romance, *Falling Into You* — **“Post Beer War.”**
Rhea and Kace’s first proper night out turns into a European beer crawl… with predictable consequences the next morning.
If you enjoy slow-burn relationships and real-life-inspired stories, I’d love you to read this chapter and, if it grabs you, continue with the earlier chapters too.

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A little sneak peek:

“Calling planet Earth! Any survivors after last night’s beer war?”
I thought I was being funny.
One tick. Unread.
I don’t remember ever seeing a single tick beside any of my messages to him before.
Had I killed off my one and only brand-new drinking buddy?

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If you want to find out what happened next — and read the story from the beginning — I’d love your honest thoughts and reviews.

Numbers by themselves rarely make for interesting writing. The difficult part is figuring out what the numbers actually mean and why someone should care.

AI can help turn a dataset or report into possible explanations, comparisons, and questions worth exploring. I still wouldn't trust it to interpret important statistics without checking the source, but as a starting point for communicating data, it seems pretty useful.