Ellipsus

@ellipsus.com

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Write like a human. Ellipsus is an easy-to-use collaborative writing tool made by writers, for writers. Us 👉 ellipsus.com Our stance on AI 👉 ellipsus.com/generative-ai Support 👉 help.ellipsus.com/support/home Status 👉 status.ellipsus.com

A screenshot of Lawrence's Sons and Lovers in Ellipsus. The word "Mother" is used 570 times.
Characters: How do your characters calm themselves down? How are their approaches different?
Still from NYT article: "Two business school professors, curious about A.I. books and whether anyone actually likes them, gathered data about 10 million books published on Amazon over the last five years. They found that the number of e-books published per month had tripled since the release of ChatGPT, to more than 300,000 at the end of last year, from around 100,000 in 2022. (Amazon said that its internal metrics did not show that level of growth, but would not share its figures.)"
Reflection: If you're facing writer's block or burnout, how do you overcome it?
Custom themes in the dashboard, Reader, and as snippet backgrounds.
Dialogue: "I wanted to do something special for you."
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A GIF of collapsible headers in Ellipsus.
A GIF of collapsible headers in Ellipsus
Scenario You're locked up, again... but are they trying to keep you in, or something else out?
Imagine your character in the future. What’s different about them? What’s the same? What have they learned by living a queer life?
The new writing insights in Ellipsus Plus.
An Ellipsus dashboard with list view.
Picture your character in a space of safety. What do they learn about themselves, the world, or other people?
Write about a character becoming more fully themself. What part of them has been waiting to emerge? Is it a sudden revelation or gradual; or a choice they must make again and again?
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An image of the Ellipsus theme builder. "Design your space with images, GIFs, and gradients. Export, import, and share with friends. The sky's the limit."
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A video of a custom theme being created on Ellipsus.
An image of the writing journey showing the “Story behind this work” in the Ellipsus reader. “Share the human process behind your work with writing metrics and human authorship badges.” An Emboss badge reads: "Support Human Writers."
A collection of customizable snippets and the update snippets modal.
The writing insight metrics.
A variety of custom themes on Ellipsus.
Images of Ellipsus Plus and its features.
Scenario: The scene is a coffee shop, the POV is the barista. Who are the regulars? What does their order show about them?
Your work your proof. Human writing tells a story. Your thinking pauses, your late-night revisions, the rhythm of your hands on the keys; the story behind the story. Your writing journey. Emboss by Ellipsus makes that journey visible: the work behind the words. A record of human authorship.
“I think storytelling is the truest expression of humanity. I think it's the most effective way to connect to one another. I think it's more than the end result, more than entertainment; it teaches you about a person. Writing is one more common tool for storytelling, one way to reach the heart and soul, to bare your own; to do art.” —Insomniac Dormouse
Do you actively avoid content you suspect is AI-generated? Yes-97.8% No-2.2%
Soon, published work will face a critical litmus test—did a human write this? The key to any tech advancement hinges on the control and quality of its inputs. A blockchain's effectiveness depends on the accuracy of its data—an LLM is only as good as the words it ingests. While this may not always be the case (as advances in how a machine uses data is rapidly improving), it’s difficult to fake millions of keystrokes over an extended time. The process of creating a text—how long it’s been edited, the number of sessions, the types of operations (writing, editing, deleting, copying, pasting)—signifies the hand of the author. Providing detailed version history, meticulously logging and safeguarding inputs throughout every stage of the work, could document and prove authenticity. In establishing a clear and traceable record of creation, writers could provide undeniable evidence of their rightful ownership.
“Nor is it guaranteed that Pangram will improve or even maintain its current ability to spot AI prose. As chatbots and AI humanizers adjust, AI detection “will wax and wane in its effectiveness for reasons we can’t predict, at times we can’t predict,” Tim Requarth, a neuroscientist who teaches science writing at NYU and has written extensively about AI detection, told me. Even as schools, publishers, scientific institutions, and the like come to rely more on AI detection, any third-party assessments of Pangram’s accuracy will be from weeks, if not many months, in the past—which in the accelerating world of AI renders them all but obsolete. Basing any AI rules or norms on the reliability of AI detection is like building a sandcastle at low tide.”
If you were transported into the world of your story, how would you fare?
Dialogue: “Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to.”
How important is it to you that a piece of writing is authored by a human? 97.4% - Very important 2.5% - Somewhat important 0.1% - Not important
Characters: If they were given minutes to live, what would they do? Who would they want to see and say?
Writing Exercise: Write a scene that was originally in one character's perspective in another character's perspective.
World-building: Someone in your story is reading the paper. What are the top headlines and stories? What's in the ads column?
Dialogue: "Please tell me I wasn't the only one who just saw that!"
A snippet of today's writing prompt.
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A graphic of a fist clutching a pencil. The text reads "To err is human"
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It cannot remember the thrill of energy the first time it accidentally brushed hands with someone it fancied. It cannot grieve. Its stomach muscles cannot hurt after a friend made it laugh so hard it cried. Cass Morris (cassmorriswrites.com) (North America)
Humans have thoughts, context, lived experiences that all knowingly and unknowingly affect our creative output. All humans have a drive to create just in different ways. AI simply regurgitates statistically likely outputs gathered from human made sources. It is incapable of imbuing any creative work with meaning. Anonymous (North America)
Human creativity is informed by the senses; the ability to be away from the machine and live without processing what is happening through the thinking mind. To lose oneself in a moment, then to come back to that moment later in a hundred different ways. Rachel (North America)
Creativity is an expression of a real person's mind. Through meeting human art or passion and recognising or learning things through it, we are less alone.  Anonymous (Oceania)
Human art, be it performance, traditional, digital, or physical, has feeling. It has emotion and reflects on what the artist values, even if the artist themself doesn’t recognize it. It tells stories from every culture and spreads the joy of creation across the globe […]. rainyraerain (North America)
AI cannot be creative on its own, not in the way a human can be. And everything a human does creatively, no matter the quality, is advancing a skill, a learning opportunity, and that in itself makes it a lot more valuable than any AI content. Anonymous (Europe)
Survey question: “How important is it to you that a piece of writing is authored by a human” Very important - 97.4% Somewhat important - 2.5% Not important - 0.1%
My creative motivation has remained quite high, because I do genuinely believe that people can outdo AI… and I’m keeping the em dashes. nathaylee (North America)
As a reader, I’m hesitant to jump into stories written post-AI craze… I’ve been duped before, read a wonderful story just to find the notes and credits at the very end say it was written by AI. The disappointment is gut wrenching. Winnifred West (@Winterline13) (North America)
It’s definitely kept me from writing at times, and kept me from posting any of my work completely. I often use em dashes, the rule of three, short, punchy sentences, and several other things that are now considered “AI markers” […] - Anonymous, (North America)
Survey question: "Have you ever felt your own work could be mistaken for AI-generated content?" Yes - 45.4% No - 54.6%
I was considering posting my work online again sometime in 2022. Then generative AI became a thing—that idea died. I don’t want to feed someone else’s cash cow… I don’t want my words cut up and butchered and turned into milquetoast slop while real people are harmed. Anonymous (North America)
Survey question: “Do you think people should have a right to know whether a text was written by AI or a human?” 99.5% - Yes 0.5% - No