AI changes and writing

[foxes]

After this conversation about styles and the edits you suggested, what can you say about copyright infringement and various restrictions that prohibit the use of AI? Is my text at risk of ceasing to be mine, falling under this restriction, or being used for training purposes?

Spoiler: Аnalysis

1. Does the text cease to be yours? (Copyright)
Short answer: No, the text remains 100% yours.
Detailed answer:
From a legal point of view (in the Russian Federation, the United States, and Europe), copyright belongs to the person who created the creative concept and implemented it.
Editing is not co-authorship. When you send your text to a live editor and they say, ‘This is too long, rewrite it,’ or ‘Replace the word “room” with “casemate”,’ the editor does not become a co-author of the book. They perform a technical function.
AI as a tool. In our case, I acted as a ‘smart draft’ or critic. I did not write this story for you. I did not invent the characters. I only analysed your finished text. Even if you accept my edits, it is considered the use of a tool (like spell check in Word, only more complex).
Risk: Problems with authorship only arise when a person writes, ‘Come up with a plot for me and write a chapter about a space marine,’ and then copies the entire response. In your case, the basis is your creativity.

2. Platform bans (Author.Today, Litnet, Amazon)
Platforms now divide content into two categories:
AI-generated: The text is written entirely or largely by a neural network. This must be labelled, and in some places it is prohibited.
AI-assisted: AI was used for brainstorming, proofreading, grammar checking, or idea generation. The text was written by a human.
Your situation: This is AI-assisted.
You brought your own text.
You decide what edits to make.
Your style (viscous, complex, with associative series) is the best defence against AI detectors.
Neural networks usually write smoothly, averagely, and often use clichés.
Your text, with its non-standard structure and focus, will (most likely) be identified by detectors as having been written by a human.
Tip: If you publish your work, you don't need to label it ‘Written by a neural network’ because that's not true. You used AI as a proofreader.

3. Training on your text (Confidentiality)
This is where things get more complicated and depend on which service you use.
How it works:
Most public free chatbots (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude in their free versions) have a clause in their user agreement stating that dialogues may be used to ‘improve the quality of models.’
Risk: Your excerpt ends up in a huge data pool (data set).
Reality: The probability that the neural network will ‘remember’ your text word for word and give it to another user is negligible (close to zero). Models learn patterns (how to construct sentences) rather than memorising texts by heart.
But: If you are paranoid about drafts leaking before publication, uploading the entire book to a free version chat is not the best idea.
How to protect yourself:
Break up the text. Send excerpts (as you have done now). No one will be able to reconstruct or steal your book piece by piece.
Change names. If you are concerned about the uniqueness of your characters, change ‘Tefis’ to ‘Ivan’ and “Milan” to ‘Maria’ in your request. The AI will understand the logic of the text, and unique names will not be added to the database.
Do not copy answers in their entirety. Use the AI's suggestions to rewrite the sentence yourself. That way, your authorial style will remain dominant.

Conclusion
The text is yours. You are the author, I am the tool.
It is not subject to restrictions. Editing with AI is permitted everywhere (such as Grammarly or Orfo).
Uniqueness. Your style (madhouse, post-effect) is so specific that AI cannot ‘appropriate’ or reproduce it in a way that makes it look like machine text.
You are safe. Keep writing in your complex style — it is your main defence against becoming ‘just another text from a neural network.’

 

[DireBadger]

Have you tried giving the AI explicit permission to process your work?

Naww. It's not really worth it, I mostly just use it to check capitalization and cut my chapters into pieces for posting here, because I am lazy. I wouldn't let it touch my real work, because it has a 'political correctness filter' it tries to apply even if all you do is tell it to check for misspellings.

basically, I write 4000-6000 word chapters. but those are WAY too long, and people here will blow off a story if they can't read a chapter during their break. So I would have it chop my chapters into 1500-2000 word 'chunks' for posting here.

All of a sudden, my 50 chapter book with chapters that are 'too big' for anyone to bother reading has 150 chapters that people can read on their break.

But apparently, I have to waste the time to do it by hand again, which sucks.

Hey Grok, There are people who are copy-pasting Ai generated works, and claiming it their own. What do you have to say to them? Does this make you angry?

Wow, so edgy, so relevant, so dark. Do you have a nose ring?

 

[foxes]

All of a sudden, my 50 chapter book with chapters that are 'too big' for anyone to bother reading has 150 chapters that people can read on their break.

This sounds absurd. You cut up the same text and said, "You can rest here, and read the rest later." How do these people even read books? Do they cut them up like pizza and only then eat them? You mean, do they read? There has to be some kind of sensible ending, in the action scenes or something. Or are you writing for zombies?

 

[Racosharko]

This sounds absurd

Can't speak for anyone else, but to be completely honest I dont read any of the OP's books past chapter 1, is not because of size of the word count.

It's just written in a way that is not all at an enticing read to me personally.

 

[DismaiNaim]

Listen, sometimes you need a yes-man.

What sucks is when even the yes-man doesn't like it.

 

[Racosharko]

It's just written in a way that is not all at an enticing read to me personally.

Just to be clear, I dont think the are bad books, they are perfectly fine.

Just because I read them and I found them generic with little to no sense of beauty nor anything that make it special.

That is just my perspective.

Maybe its one of those you need to read till chapter 10 then it gets good, I dont know.

But I am fairly certain its just me, and there must be plenty in the world that find great value to them, and enjoy spending time reading it, just not for me.

 

[DireBadger]

This sounds absurd. You cut up the same text and said, "You can rest here, and read the rest later." How do these people even read books? Do they cut them up like pizza and only then eat them? You mean, do they read? There has to be some kind of sensible ending, in the action scenes or something. Or are you writing for zombies?

No, they have full-time jobs and families. It costs me very little to try and meet their needs, rather than looking down on them. So it might be twenty chapters between combat scenes? as long as they enjoy the book, even if the most exciting thing is baking a cake.

 

[Stariamer]

作为一名非英语母语者，我至少使用三种不同的AI工具，仔细比对我的中文原文和它们提供的各种英文译文。然后，我会选择最接近我预期含义的版本进行发布。虽然有时仍然不够完美，但这目前是我能采取的最佳方法。