I have a question regarding AI.

[Nevafrost]

So, English is my 5th language. I'm still learning and my grammar isn't perfect yet. So, if I use AI to correct my grammatical mistakes, will it be considered I'm using AI in my fiction? Or, should I mention it in description or smth? Will it be morally bad lol?
Also, I tried looking for free grammar correctors but couldn’t find any that's not AI. Suggest me if you know any.

 

[Envylope]

I think you will handicap yourself by doing so. It's fine to do it, but you must learn the grammar rules properly.

 

[FRWriter]

USE Grammarly, it's a good compromise. Takes way more time, but you'll see your mistakes pointed out one by one, and you'll immediately know when you screwed up.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

So, English is my 5th language. I'm still learning and my grammar isn't perfect yet. So, if I use AI to correct my grammatical mistakes, will it be considered I'm using AI in my fiction? Or, should I mention it in description or smth? Will it be morally bad lol?
Also, I tried looking for free grammar correctors but couldn’t find any that's not AI. Suggest me if you know any.

English is my second language, and I use AI to keep my grammar correct. However, as Envy said, I had to learn the rules myself, because AI can commit mistakes, or push a political agenda in your otherwise 'political-bias free' story (yeah, I'm looking at ProWriting Aid, which often forces me to use 'gender-neutral' English when I really meant to show the gender of the character I'm writing about).

Grammarly is good, but I prefer ProWriting Aid more because I can also learn grammar rules there as well as let AI analyze specific details from my work.

 

[Eldoria]

USE Grammarly, it's a good compromise. Takes way more time, but you'll see your mistakes pointed out one by one, and you'll immediately know when you screwed up.

Grammarly is actually more of a tool for correcting sentences and words based on UK standards. It even forces US spellings to be UK. Grammarly can't detect ambiguous sentence structure errors.

I find Grammarly as a tool with many shortcomings, even though it helps establish standards.

 

[L1aei]

English is my second language, and I use AI to keep my grammar correct. However, as Envy said, I had to learn the rules myself, because AI can commit mistakes, or push a political agenda in your otherwise 'political-bias free' story (yeah, I'm looking at ProWriting Aid, which often forces me to use 'gender-neutral' English when I really meant to show the gender of the character I'm writing about).

Grammarly is good, but I prefer ProWriting Aid more because I can also learn grammar rules there as well as let AI analyze specific details from my work.

And AI loves throwing out weird terms. Ozone, for example. Smelling ozone... what the hell does that smell like? It gets used because it sounds electrical; not because those bucketheads stopped for half a second to consider what a lowly human actually perceives. Words like that receive the literary equivalent of empty calories: they look impressive on the nutritional facts but collapse your whole diet the moment you try to ingest the bulk as a whole.

Like, removing the metaphor I just used, it's fine on paper. In practice? AI doesn't practice. It's book-smart, not world-experienced. It spins the RNG, grabs a flowery word it thinks sounds right, and keeps the sentence moving whether it makes sense or not.

Use AI to assist you, but proofread what you write to make sure it actually delivers the message you intend. It's about as reliable as a GPS on a brand-new highway. Follow it blindly, and you'll end up in lanes the AI hasn't mapped yet.

 

[Macha]

English is my second language, and I use AI to keep my grammar correct. However, as Envy said, I had to learn the rules myself, because AI can commit mistakes, or push a political agenda in your otherwise 'political-bias free' story (yeah, I'm looking at ProWriting Aid, which often forces me to use 'gender-neutral' English when I really meant to show the gender of the character I'm writing about).

Grammarly is good, but I prefer ProWriting Aid more because I can also learn grammar rules there as well as let AI analyze specific details from my work.

I hate how it always correct poor to low-income.

 

[Wamba2K]

Use AI to assist you, but proofread what you write to make sure it actually delivers the message you intend. It's about as reliable as a GPS on a brand-new highway. Follow it blindly, and you'll end up in lanes the AI hasn't mapped yet.

That is a perfect analogy. Kudos.

 

[tantrayaan]

So, English is my 5th language. I'm still learning and my grammar isn't perfect yet. So, if I use AI to correct my grammatical mistakes, will it be considered I'm using AI in my fiction? Or, should I mention it in description or smth? Will it be morally bad lol?
Also, I tried looking for free grammar correctors but couldn’t find any that's not AI. Suggest me if you know any.

Unless you are trying to use this as a way to learn English, why not write in the language of your choice and just use AI to translate?

You will probably find this faster and more efficient. Perhaps writing isn't the best way to learn a language unless you already have some mastery over it.

 

[SaltedFishX]

So, English is my 5th language. I'm still learning and my grammar isn't perfect yet. So, if I use AI to correct my grammatical mistakes, will it be considered I'm using AI in my fiction? Or, should I mention it in description or smth? Will it be morally bad lol?
Also, I tried looking for free grammar correctors but couldn’t find any that's not AI. Suggest me if you know any.

Why be afraid with using AI? As long as you are the director, its fine. As long as you are the creative source of your work, you're fine. That's called AI-assisted work. Its not illegal.

Well, it might be a little hard to make money out of it, but if your writing for the sake of your passion, then AI is a good tool for you.

Just keep a good eye on your AI. AI tends to hallucinate quite a lot and can be unreliable sometimes. Also, it tends to have its default voice so make sure to keep an eye on that one too.

 

[Tyranomaster]

So, English is my 5th language. I'm still learning and my grammar isn't perfect yet. So, if I use AI to correct my grammatical mistakes, will it be considered I'm using AI in my fiction? Or, should I mention it in description or smth? Will it be morally bad lol?
Also, I tried looking for free grammar correctors but couldn’t find any that's not AI. Suggest me if you know any.

I personally don't think it'd be bad, though AI is a bad tool for it. English language grammar rules are finite, and have been figured out for over a decade in software (see grammarly etc). Using AI is more akin to an editor. One which you're likely to trust in full because you don't understand the language deeply enough to realize when it's making acute changes. Tools which highlight errors for you to fix yourself are going to be significantly more accurate and useful (in google docs->extensions->add-ons, you can search grammar and get a bunch of tools.)

Another tidbit on this, LLM based AI (Grok/GPT/Claude/DeepSeek/Local Models) are actually going to vastly underperform when you use them for grammar and spelling. They're predictive. A large portion of the tokens you've just fed in are grammatically incorrect, which is the equivalent of sending malformed information packets. The volume of malformed packets determines how poor the prediction becomes. It might still work, but I'd expect at least 1 generation of model regression in quality (I.E. GPT5 produces GPT4 quality).

As a third tangential note. A good skill to build is retrospective analysis of your own writing in general. You opened up your question with two qualifying statements before also asking a moral question. Even if you're not consciously aware of it, you definitely show some internal moral questions about using AI for this, and are outsourcing your morality to the group.

I personally have no qualms about this use case (though I think it's strictly worse than other tools), but that's my morality, not yours.

 

[Nevafrost]

Unless you are trying to use this as a way to learn English, why not write in the language of your choice and just use AI to translate?

You will probably find this faster and more efficient. Perhaps writing isn't the best way to learn a language unless you already have some mastery over it.

Translating is way worse than correcting in my opinion. AI tends to bend the meaning of my sentences in a different way and I don't like the fact that it won't be the words I wrote. While I would use some software to correct my grammar, it would still be my words, just a corrected version.

Why be afraid with using AI? As long as you are the director, its fine. As long as you are the creative source of your work, you're fine. That's called AI-assisted work. Its not illegal.

Well, it might be a little hard to make money out of it, but if your writing for the sake of your passion, then AI is a good tool for you.

Just keep a good eye on your AI. AI tends to hallucinate quite a lot and can be unreliable sometimes. Also, it tends to have its default voice so make sure to keep an eye on that one too.

I don’t care if it's legal or not. I don’t personally support using AI in creative fields. So, I'm asking if it will be considered that I used AI if I correct my grammar with one. Another thing is, maybe I'll be the director but it won't feel like I made the movie if AI is what acts it out. I want my writing to be a work where I use my own words; not a bunch of AI nonsense.

 

[tantrayaan]

Translating is way worse than correcting in my opinion. AI tends to bend the meaning of my sentences in a different way and I don't like the fact that it won't be the words I wrote. While I would use some software to correct my grammar, it would still be my words, just a corrected version.

I don’t care if it's legal or not. I don’t personally support using AI in creative fields. So, I'm asking if it will be considered that I used AI if I correct my grammar with one. Another thing is, maybe I'll be the director but it won't feel like I made the movie if AI is what acts it out. I want my writing to be a work where I use my own words; not a bunch of AI nonsense.

IMO. It makes more sense than trying to write in a 5th language that you are not confident about. There may be a few mistranslated sentences, but at least the author will accomplish their goal. Readers can always help you with poorly phrased sentences or idioms.

 

[VM_Belwynd]

English is my second language, and I use AI to keep my grammar correct. However, as Envy said, I had to learn the rules myself, because AI can commit mistakes, or push a political agenda in your otherwise 'political-bias free' story (yeah, I'm looking at ProWriting Aid, which often forces me to use 'gender-neutral' English when I really meant to show the gender of the character I'm writing about).

Grammarly is good, but I prefer ProWriting Aid more because I can also learn grammar rules there as well as let AI analyze specific details from my work.

You do know that you can change that under the Style Guides in ProWriting Aid, if you don't like it. It is under the Inclusive Language. But there are whole lot of settings there to adjust what and how it corrects.

 

[Jerynboe]

TLDR You can use it but it’s a deeply flawed tool so always be careful. I use it as an editor with the rule that I literally never copy/paste anything written by it and in fact set ground rules with it every single time that it should never try to write anything or rewrite anything I have written.

As for whether or not people will judge you? Currently Larian, the makers of Baldur’s Gate 3, are facing massive backlash for mentioning that they are using Ai internally as placeholders that aren’t intended to make it into the game. No amount of earned goodwill, lack of knowledge about your process, or anything you say will stop people from judging you about using ai so don’t you worry about that.

 

[Nevafrost]

IMO. It makes more sense than trying to write in a 5th language that you are not confident about. There may be a few mistranslated sentences, but at least the author will accomplish their goal. Readers can always help you with poorly phrased sentences or idioms.

I respect your view but it's not as if my fiction is unreadable (I hope so) in English, which is my 5th language. And, I'm constantly learning and using a corrector is only for my own satisfaction and to learn more.

TLDR You can use it but it’s a deeply flawed tool so always be careful. I use it as an editor with the rule that I literally never copy/paste anything written by it and in fact set ground rules with it every single time that it should never try to write anything or rewrite anything I have written.

As for whether or not people will judge you? Currently Larian, the makers of Baldur’s Gate 3, are facing massive backlash for mentioning that they are using Ai internally as placeholders that aren’t intended to make it into the game. No amount of earned goodwill, lack of knowledge about your process, or anything you say will stop people from judging you about using ai so don’t you worry about that.

I hope to find some corrector software which isn't AI and which will help me learn in the meantime.

I personally don't think it'd be bad, though AI is a bad tool for it. English language grammar rules are finite, and have been figured out for over a decade in software (see grammarly etc). Using AI is more akin to an editor. One which you're likely to trust in full because you don't understand the language deeply enough to realize when it's making acute changes. Tools which highlight errors for you to fix yourself are going to be significantly more accurate and useful (in google docs->extensions->add-ons, you can search grammar and get a bunch of tools.)

Another tidbit on this, LLM based AI (Grok/GPT/Claude/DeepSeek/Local Models) are actually going to vastly underperform when you use them for grammar and spelling. They're predictive. A large portion of the tokens you've just fed in are grammatically incorrect, which is the equivalent of sending malformed information packets. The volume of malformed packets determines how poor the prediction becomes. It might still work, but I'd expect at least 1 generation of model regression in quality (I.E. GPT5 produces GPT4 quality).

As a third tangential note. A good skill to build is retrospective analysis of your own writing in general. You opened up your question with two qualifying statements before also asking a moral question. Even if you're not consciously aware of it, you definitely show some internal moral questions about using AI for this, and are outsourcing your morality to the group.

I personally have no qualms about this use case (though I think it's strictly worse than other tools), but that's my morality, not yours.

I will definitely use any other tool I can find if it's not AI. Personally, I also hate the use of AI in creative fields and I will do my best to refrain myself from doing the same.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

You do know that you can change that under the Style Guides in ProWriting Aid, if you don't like it. It is under the Inclusive Language. But there are whole lot of settings there to adjust what and how it corrects.

Yes, I know that option.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Language Tool

 

[FRWriter]

Grammarly is actually more of a tool for correcting sentences and words based on UK standards. It even forces US spellings to be UK. Grammarly can't detect ambiguous sentence structure errors.

I find Grammarly as a tool with many shortcomings, even though it helps establish standards.

Yeah, you are right. However, according to OP, he is really at the start of his learning journey. So I think the basic corrections Grammarly offers would be the most useful.

No more basic mistakes, no more missing commas, basic stuff. The rest OP has to learn the slow & painful way.