Jean Campbell
1 min readOct 25, 2023

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I've been using psudowrite to help me move along in the plot of my pulp fiction thriller for a while and I have zero problems with this. I came up with an idea, and getting prompts about which direction to go in from AI is very helpful to me, like a mechanized writer's group. It's my original story, and I rewrite extensively, and will need to edit extensively, too. But one reason I don't have a problem with it is presicely because writer's have been stealing other people's ideas, styles, plots, and even characters since the beginning of time. Every story is unique, even with AI, and if they aren't--no one is going to bother reading them. I also wonder if, eventually, when so much AI content is out there, and the bots are still scouring, we might start to see the curve of originality go in the other direction. If we begin creating more and more "similar" content due to "what sells" then perhaps we'll end up with a dearth of new, fresh, original content. I think most writers will find AI programs like sudowrite are a tool, not a terminator.

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Jean Campbell
Jean Campbell

Written by Jean Campbell

Writer by day, reader by night, napper by afternoon.

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