I can definitely relate to what you wrote here. I’ve been writing in a particular NSFW niche since 2014 across several usernames, and have generally received positive feedback on my stories. I always wrote fast and clean—my superpower was knocking out thousands of words in a single evening like a machine, and I mostly didn’t need to edit it.
I was an early and enthusiastic adopter of AI as a writing companion in 2022. I loved NovelAI, and had tons of fun using various LLMs to write the “boring stuff” and writing the spicy stuff they refused to write myself. The response to my AI-assisted efforts (never disclosed) were about as positive as my 100% human stuff. But… a switch flipped in 2025, and now I’m just not having fun all around. I used to love just writing. I used to love AI-assisted writing. But lately, I can hardly get the motivation for any of it. My superpower is gone, and I still get people commenting on my unfinished human-made and ai-assisted stories, wondering when my next post is going to be.
I’m still cautiously pro-current AI, and still a little worried about the future of AI from an existential risk standpoint (probably like many here on Less Wrong), but I know for me it has kind of been a long-term poison pill in a way. I haven’t cultivated that joy again, but I have been trying to de-stress and get back into AI-writing at least, if my human writing will never be back up to snuff, I at least want to enjoy myself to the extent I still can.
I can definitely relate to what you wrote here. I’ve been writing in a particular NSFW niche since 2014 across several usernames, and have generally received positive feedback on my stories. I always wrote fast and clean—my superpower was knocking out thousands of words in a single evening like a machine, and I mostly didn’t need to edit it.
I was an early and enthusiastic adopter of AI as a writing companion in 2022. I loved NovelAI, and had tons of fun using various LLMs to write the “boring stuff” and writing the spicy stuff they refused to write myself. The response to my AI-assisted efforts (never disclosed) were about as positive as my 100% human stuff. But… a switch flipped in 2025, and now I’m just not having fun all around. I used to love just writing. I used to love AI-assisted writing. But lately, I can hardly get the motivation for any of it. My superpower is gone, and I still get people commenting on my unfinished human-made and ai-assisted stories, wondering when my next post is going to be.
I’m still cautiously pro-current AI, and still a little worried about the future of AI from an existential risk standpoint (probably like many here on Less Wrong), but I know for me it has kind of been a long-term poison pill in a way. I haven’t cultivated that joy again, but I have been trying to de-stress and get back into AI-writing at least, if my human writing will never be back up to snuff, I at least want to enjoy myself to the extent I still can.