Most AI Writing Tools Are Doing It Wrong
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The pitch is always the same: paste your idea, click a button, get a chapter. AI writing tools promise to turn anyone into a novelist overnight. But if you've actually tried using one for a project longer than a blog post, you already know the truth.
They fall apart.
Not because the AI is bad — the language models behind these tools are genuinely impressive. They fail because they treat writing as a generation problem when it's actually a structure problem.