AI助写工具VeriForge帮作者发现叙事中的知识盲区,保持创作主导权。
VeriForge: Mitigating Latent Knowledge Gaps in Narrative Drafting via Mixed-Initiative Scaffolding

- AI主动标记写作中的知识漏洞,作者自主决定如何融合。
- 通过对话+知识卡片+空间画布,实现知识发现与创作分离。
- 适合追求真实感的虚构写作创作者,尤其擅长冷启动场景。
优秀小说的可信性源于精准细节,如长剑如何握持以穿透铠甲缝隙,或为何血肉之躯尚未散发腐臭气味,这些领域知识需融入虚构世界。当前AI写作工具在发现并整合陌生领域知识方面能力有限:需作者提出明确问题(但常无法表述),生成成品文段易导致风格趋同,且仅限于作者已知范围。我们主张AI应揭示作者潜在的知识盲区,同时保留其将知识转化为真实叙事的自主权。基于对9位小说作者的前期访谈,提出VeriForge——一种混合倡议式写作系统,将认知分工明确:系统负责领域知识发现,作者掌控叙事合成。该系统包含三项互补机制:主动内联高亮在作者写作时提示可能的知识缺口;双流查询将对话回应与源文献锚定的知识卡片结合,支持直接事实提取;空间知识画布让作者跨文本组织和关联发现的知识。上述机制依托基于领域特异性资料的图结构检索增强生成流程。一项被试内用户研究(N=12)初步验证,该范式有助于作者识别此前忽略的知识盲区,支持创造性探索,且专家评审认为其在冷启动写作任务中产出段落具有更强领域根基。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Great fiction earns its verisimilitude through precise details, from how a longsword is gripped to pierce armor gaps to why a bleeding corpse cannot yet smell of decay, weaving domain expertise into the fabric of invented worlds. Current AI writing tools offer limited support for discovering and integrating unfamiliar domain knowledge into narrative. They require explicit queries that authors cannot formulate, generate finished prose that risks homogenizing voice, or assist only within the boundaries of what authors already know. We argue that AI should reveal latent knowledge gaps to writers while preserving their agency to transform discovered knowledge into authentic prose. Grounded in formative interviews with 9 fiction writers, we present VeriForge, a mixed-initiative writing system that divides cognitive labor so that the system assumes initiative over domain discovery while the author retains full initiative over narrative synthesis. VeriForge realizes this through three complementary mechanisms. Proactive inline highlighting flags potential knowledge gaps as authors draft. Dual-stream querying pairs conversational responses with source-anchored Knowledge Cards for direct fact extraction. A spatial Knowledge Canvas allows authors to organize and connect discovered knowledge across their writing. These mechanisms are powered by a graph-based retrieval-augmented generation pipeline grounded in domain-specific source materials. A within-subjects user study (N=12) provides preliminary evidence that this paradigm helps authors recognize previously overlooked knowledge gaps, supports creative exploration, and is perceived by expert raters to produce passages with stronger domain grounding in a controlled cold-start writing task.
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