William King

I asked the AI I use for a review, just to see it's opinion, and I think it summarised the book better than I could. A Knight in the Darkness is a must-read for fans of queer historical fantasy. It takes the familiar "Knight and Squire" trope and breathes new life into it through its focus on disability and sensory magic. By Chapter 19, the bond between Darien and Wylan is firmly cemented, leaving readers with a strong "cliffhanger" sense of anticipation for how their love—and Wylan's powers—will survive the coming crusade. Rating: 4.5/5 — A poignant, atmospheric journey that proves the most powerful sight is often the one that doesn't require eyes.

These are all good points, but I wish you would reference what you are talking about, how do I find the Case in point: In Jeff Burton's story, the kiss--and, oh yes, indeed--that "ass grab," between" Skylar and Gabriel. If you don't link to it? I looked, but Jeff Burton has several stories. The same applies for @Jason Rimbaud if you don't point me to an example in your writing that represents what you are talking about, I just look at random or what? I'm sorry, but I am not familiar with all of Jeff Burton's stories nor Jason Rimbaud's, examples with links are good.

True. It also depends on the country you live in, some societies are more prudish than others.

Going too far for me means crossing a line between including a sexual scene described erotically and falling into pornography. If you want examples I will write you privately. It does depend what you want to do with your book, who the audience is. Take @Topher Lydon latest series, book one, A Knight in the Darkness, the sexual content never goes beyond obvious suggestion. This means the book could appeal to a wider audience. Honestly, if the whole series is the same and apart from one reservation, it could be the new Harry Potter. He creates a whole universe and populates it with fantastic characters, magic, and adventure. The one reservation, maybe it's too gay oriented for a wider audience, but then again, maybe not.

There is an example here: https://gayauthors.org/story/e-k-stokes/rókus/3 it's a story I read not long ago which I think makes the right balance. In my own older stories I may have gone too far, it is very difficult to draw a line that perfectly fits being spicy without going too far.

Are you joking? Not knowing you, I don't know if you are being serious or not. Often I feel there are personal conversations going on here which kind of exclude outsiders. On a site which has Sex Content tags: anal, bdsm, casual sex, fetish, first time, group sex, incest, masturbate, no sex, oral, violent, it does rather classify the content as at least soft porn, excepting the "no sex" tag. I've always had a question about such story tags, however it would seem to be the opposite of "Sex scenes have no place on GA!" As for AI, it has self imposed censorship and cannot fulfill requests for explicit sex scenes, it will not write pornography.

That's a good point, but it depends what you are asking it to do. If you are asking AI to recognise anomalies in an MIR scan it can do this faster and more accurately, with more precision than human eyes. If you are asking it to write something it will gather and distill available material and the result is likely repetitive. Possibly leaving AI to write a work of fiction might eventually result in one book, the one and only story, which would indeed be boring! Then again, what if you ask it not to distill, but invent, would it be capable?

AI-powered tools are being used to diagnose cancers, identify anomalies in radiological scans, and review medical literature to help with treatment decisions. For example, when used in mammography screenings, AI systems can identify early signs of breast cancer with remarkable accuracy, often at a higher rate than human radiologists.

AI is already starting to impact medicine and its role will only grow, a good thing, because it is helping to save lives. The key word here is helping. AI can help with writing, editing, designing, plotting, whatever you ask it to do, but it can't replace an author, not really, because it doesn't have continuity. Like AI images with six fingers on a hand, AI stories will tend to be repetitive and disjointed. Still, like any tool it's there to be used and a skilful writer can take advantage of it, or not!

AI is a tool to increase our capabilities, not to replace us. Yann LeCun, AI Scientific Director at Meta, 2018 AI is like having a knife. You can use it to cut bread or to hurt someone. It's up to us to decide how to use it. Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, 2015 “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.” ― Frank Zappa

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You are probably right!

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Yeah! You love your cliff hanger endings, but given its not a dream then Emory is about to get what he needs, and it's his long time missing room mate who is gonna ride him to a satisfying climax...