What do you think about using AI for World building

Reddit r/artificial / 3/26/2026

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Key Points

  • The post asks whether using AI is acceptable for worldbuilding tasks such as generating names, refining details, and identifying plot holes rather than fully writing everything with AI.
  • The author describes personal constraints—being a high school student with limited time for research and having aphantasia—which make imagining scenes and developing descriptions especially difficult.
  • A key example is using AI to help construct fictional languages and to develop weather/climate systems without doing extensive manual research.
  • The author is also concerned about ethics in creative spaces, noting that AI use is “touchy” and expressing a desire to publish work without being unethical.

I guess I should explain what I mean by AI. Like not using AI to like do all your World Building but like names, ironing out details, looking for plot holes. I am doing very extensive world building and sometimes I guess I do need it. I’m in high school and I’m trying to figure out how to create fictional languages while having a majority advanced classes and not having time to do the research. And personally i have really bad times ”imagining” things because I have aphantasia and so like the descriptions is hard for me. same thing with weather/climate that I’m currently working on. I do want to be published and I don’t want to be like unethical or anything like that and I know AI is touchy within creative spaces so what do you think

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