Authors Are Posting TikToks to Protest AI Use in Writing—and to Prove They Aren’t Doing It

Godschild, who wrote the fantastic novel The hunter and the driven, Said she has written since childhood and goes through a long process – to plot her years of manuscript before putting pen on paper. A few days after seeing the 1,000-page assembly position of Aveyard, Godschild posted a period of time of herself writing on his computer, Subtitling video, “Look at this time-time by writing a scene in a mystery of murder television show without using Gen-Ai.” The legend also notes that it is “not a thief” and that “the murderer is so unpredictable, not even a machine could understand who it is”.

Some writers use the controversy of AI to remind people of the very human skills that it takes to create a complex history.

The independent author of Ya Rachel Menard posted a tiktok Of herself opening the drafts of one of her manuscripts, writing that if she used AI, “that would not make me 78 sketches to do it.”

“Everyone has forgotten what makes a book good, and it is the work that enters there,” explains Menard, who wrote three books independently. She adds that if AI can be able to “release a decent spice scene”, that cannot create a convincing story. “If my characters do not feel like real people, living a real life, with real problems, then I have to continue working on it.”

Quin Millz, an indie author With more than 830,000 Tiktok subscribers And well known for its breathtaking “street bed” titles like Old thot next door And This hoe had cockroaches in her cradleSaid that the accusations that he used AI to write will be beyond qualifying him as a thief-they underestimate cultural mastery behind his novels. Before revealing his identity on Tiktok in 2023, Millz, who is black, treated accusations that he was white and even a rumor that he was a “CIA agent”.

“It is clear now that you use AI to write all your books. Isn’t that so that you drop the books so quickly. A commentator wrote On one of Millz’s messages.

Millz uses AI to make books of books, including for books that are still in the conceptual phase, but says that the allegations that he writes with the tool are false.

“There is no way in hell, you will make one of these models of AI really capture the essence of how black people speak,” Millz told Wired. The author says that he has tested the use of AI for writing and found that the major language models censor his adult scenes and could not reproduce his nuanced tone. “He doesn’t understand that Aave [African American Vernacular English] is not monolithic … Blacks in Chicago do not look like blacks in New York. »»

While Millz has hosted a few Tiktok lives documenting his writing process in real time, he tells Wired that he will host any more – even if it helps to prove the skeptics that his written work is original.

The recording constantly with commentators has embarrassed his writing process, he says, and he believes that even if a social presence is crucial in the independent edition, the filming of your process will not provide more proof of work without AI than your work itself-at least not yet. “I really think there is something transcendent in human experience, something mystical that we do not know yet, and you can feel it through the arts,” says Millz. “When you read the text, even if you do a good job to try to modify it or do it, there is still something wrong.”