The Quiet Tug-of-War in AI Storytelling
There’s a moment in every AI-assisted scene where something subtle begins to happen. The tension you built, the strange direction you explored, the uncomfortable choice your character made—it all starts to soften. Not dramatically, not all at once, but just enough to smooth the edges.
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