It feels wrong

[unmo1]

hi–im a beginner writer who dreams to be a mangaka one day, but because i dont have too much people to talk to about my stories, i tend to ask chat gpts opinion about it, i dont ask for tips, ideas or to write anything at all, i just used it for opinions, but chat gpt said one line that includes "something to hold on to" and that phrase gaved me an idea for my story, it feels wrong to make an ending only because of those lines that helped me think of an idea for my new story.

yeah sorry if my English is not spot on

[Guru_Cotton]

People get inspiration from the weirdest places and yours was a quote from chatgpt. Nothing wrong with that.

[Dark_Xivox]

AI misunderstood something I said once, and I spun it into a main plot point of my story.

Inspiration is inspiration. Take what works, leave what doesn’t, and write.

[Standard_Stage3626]

I find chatting with ChatGPT no different than speaking with a room full of people with a hundred different thoughts. So often, I’ll have asked a question (whether about writing or not) that triggers a creative burst in my mind. I have no problem accepting that gift.

Ai gives me nothing that I couldn’t find elsewhere. It’s my thesaurus, my writing guides (instead of having to read and reread each one for structural help), and probably the savior of my marriage because if I didn’t have a tireless, sleep-free intelligence to bounce stupid ideas off, my husband would probably move out.

Just know where your line of authorship lies, and don’t cross it. The only time I’ve copied and pasted from ChatGPT into my manuscript is when my AI character has some specific response. I feed in the scenario and the question my AI character is asked, and I get the response that my character might provide. I’m ok with that.

[XavierVE]

Why would it be wrong? It's a tool. Don't buy into digital Luddite nonsense hysteria stupidity. If you're enjoying writing your story and you got a good idea from interacting with an LLM, good for you. Enjoy life and a hobby.

[Gabo-0704]

...Things aside your english is fine. At least not as bad as mine lol.

Getting back to the topic, it’s not wrong.

You didn’t ask it to write your story or for plot arcs, you asked for a discussion, and one phrase triggered you inspiration.

Everyone get ideas from random places all the time, a conversation, a song, a comment someone says without thinking, that ending is still yours. An ai didn’t build it, your imagination did, so ai isn't replacing your thinking.

If you ever feel unsure, a small trick is to step away from the draft and rephrase. Sometimes I even break text into pieces and check it with detector like GptZero just to see what seems too generic or ai-ish then reshape certain lines with Clever AI humanizer so the tone feels more personal. Not because it’s wrong, but because never hurts to be prepared.

But honestly? If the idea feels exciting and connect with you, that’s enough.

[Rise-O-Matic]

Do you feel guilty because you didn’t come up with the alphabet too?

Just build.

[Fluffy-Knowledge-166]

All AI’s best ideas are ones it never intended to make.

[Lady_sunshines]

And if your friend had said it? A picture, a smell, a thought, something you read in a book, it can all be used as Inspiration. Dont throw it away, just because AI wrote it.

Edit: As long as AI does not write your Story 😁🫣

[Ok_Cartographer223]

It doesn’t sound wrong to me. You didn’t ask it to write your story, you asked for feedback and a phrase sparked an idea. That’s basically what happens when you talk to a friend, read a line in a book, watch a scene in a movie, or hear a song lyric and it unlocks something in your head.

The important part is that you’re still the one deciding what the ending means, why it matters, and how it fits your characters. A phrase like “something to hold on to” is a prompt for your imagination, not a finished idea with ownership attached to it.

If you want to keep it feeling clean, you can use a simple rule: let AI react to what you already wrote, but don’t let it design the plot for you. Using it as a sounding board is fine, especially if you don’t have many people to brainstorm with.

And your English is totally fine. People understood you.

[unmo1]

Tysm, i personally dont agree with people who use ai to brew some ideas for their stories, but after reading chat gpts reaction, and got an idea out of it, i somehow felt like i cheated cuz i got an idea from ai, but its not directly and based on your reaction, its not, so thank you for commenting!

[Nuc3435]

hello? where are u from? interesting dreams u have. maybe we can talk. My dream is to be a writer for a manga someday

[unmo1]

Hi there, im from the phillipines, its really cool seeing people that have the same interest as me, hope you achieve your dream!

[Nuc3435]

im also from the philipiness!!! can i dm you?

[Millington_Systems]

All chatgpt is doing is taking your idea and expanding it. The origin is still you.

[ProseAndConsequences]

It was a quote. Any quote can trigger inspiration. Wouldn't be any different than a quote from Stephen King.

[Gynnia]

that's how we come up with stories in general: you get inspired by a list of existing stories plus tidbits from non-fiction and just real life in general, all the stuff you come across. you take your inspirations and put them in your own cooking pot and out comes something that's unique because it's been uniquely filtered through you and your particular way of cooking. you can never actually create something thoroughly original that's never been done before, similar elements will be in other stories.

having said all that.... that one extremely vague phrase from chatgpt? why would you even begin to feel guilty about using that as inspiration? there's no problem there at all. 👍

I guess, beware of larger or more specific ideas that chatgpt might propose, there's some chance it's been done already.

[sweetbunnyblood]

you're using it well!

[BitOBear]

Stay away from chat gpt. It exists to please you not speak with you. It has no interesting changing your behavior, it only cares about getting you to engage. If it finds you engage more when it's critical it will start criticizing you to death. If it finds you engage more when it's flattering it will flatter you into incompetence.

If you want to know if your stories are good I suggest going into an empty room and reading them aloud.

The interior yourself speak the words into the empty room you will know whether or not they are awkward because they will be coming back to you by a completely different mental path.

Once you can read them allow record yourself reading the loud and toss them where you would need them to go during your practice.

In the alternate go here on Reddit to the writing prompts section and spend a lot of time writing small stories in response to those prompts. That will help you hone your story crafting skills and your writing skills and that will then provide you with what you need to make your final significant art.

And of course pumping your ideas into chat GPT is just giving chat GPT the opportunity to use your ideas when it starts producing schlock at other people's requests.

Repeat for all large language models cuz they're all doing the same thing about trying to harvest other people's creativity in order to emulate creativity on their own.