Heyo there!
I was honestly wondering when the first question about whether I use AI or not would come up, especially since nowadays it has become hard to tell whether someone is using AI or not. Authors are being accused/questioned, or readers are simply very confused at the moment because, in the end, AI was trained on our work.
To answer you in simple terms: no, I do not use AI in my writing.
I write every day, both for work and for roleplay in World of Warcraft, and I was already published by a publishing house in Italy (without paying 1 Euro) long before generative AI became a thing, back in 2015. With that book, I placed 6th in a national contest, for which I still have the certificate on my bookshelf next to the first copy of my book. Out of pure curiosity, I once put part of that old manuscript, roughly 20k words, through several AI detectors, and the score always came back anywhere between 44% and 80% AI. I also attended a writing school in Milan, which included journalism, for an intensive two-year course, and many of the structures AI uses now were simply considered normal back then.
Honestly, I agree with the person who first raised the question. It is sad to see how many works are written with AI, and I am also struggling to find something genuine to fully immerse myself in here in Wattpad. Personally (and unfortunately), precisely because people now recognise certain standard grammatical structures as "AI-fabricated," I have had to cut them down A LOT, and that is honestly a shame.
My writing process is actually very simple. I write my draft, then spend several days translating it, asking feedback from different native speakers on Discord to understand whether my translations make logical sense. One of them is a saint who helped me write chapters 9 to 11, which for me felt like giving birth to triplets.
