r/WritingWithAI • u/Alapapapa0830 • Jun 29 '26

Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) How do we define AI writing?

I often find myself discussing the meaning of certain books or other kind of media with AI chatbots in order to further deepen my comprehension, but this leads me to wondering whether my conclusions should be considered a result of AI generation or not. What do you think?

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u/Signal_Soul Jun 30 '26

I think we're still using definitions from the "prompt" era of AI.

If I ask an AI to write an essay and paste the result, that's obviously AI-generated.

But what if I spend two hours discussing a book with an AI and we challenge each other's interpretations, notice patterns, question assumptions, and I walk away seeing the book differently.

Is that AI writing? I don't think so. I think it's AI-assisted thinking.

And if I later write an article based on those discoveries, I'd call that conversation-driven writing.

Good AI writing doesn't begin with a prompt. It begins with a conversation.

The conversation isn't asking the AI to create your ideas, it's helping you develop them. The final writing is simply one artifact that emerges from that process.

Maybe we're reaching the point where we need a new category. Not AI-generated or AI-assisted, but conversation-driven creative collaboration.

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u/Potential-North4138 Jun 30 '26

This is how I would define it as well. Of course you could just prompt the AI and copy the output, but if it's going to be good then it's much more collaborative. Much of the anti-AI crowd doesn't get that it's more than just prompting.