How to Avoid AI Rejection

"Opulent, elegant, fingers danced, fringers traced (all repeated many, many, many times, in the same, same, exact way)."

:=)

HJahahahahahaha

Yes, ALL AI write this way. And will continue to do so for the next several decades.

Hahahahahaha (if you really believe this, you are very silly)
 
well, AI is all hype. lets go home. .... wait, why are these idiots getting 40 BILLION murican dollas?

"Because they found some suckers with more money than sense, duh"


Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhaa.

Yes. Look at all those investors giving money to Amazon. For over a decade. It was NEVER profitable during that decade. It ALWAYS lost money. Those idiot sucker investors.

Hahahahahahhahahahahahahha
 
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'Tisn't the use of the words; it's rather the overuse of the words and phrases that shows a lack of humanity in the writing.
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Well, this is not true. It MIGHT have been true a few days ago, perhaps, or a few weeks ago, but now now.

It, of course, depends on the system weights the AI LLM has, what its filters are, what source materials it was taught on (everything written by humans, spoiler alert), and finally what the system prompt or prompts were when interacting with it.

I am amazed that people here think they can distinguish a human written story or youtube comment or reddit comment from an AI written one.

Teachers are using "AI detector" tools to try to spot whether a student used AI to write his essay or not. Hilarious.
 
"Because they found some suckers with more money than sense, duh"


Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhaa.

Yes. Look at all those investors giving money to Amazon. For over a decade. It was NEVER profitable during that decade. It ALWAYS lost money. Those idiot sucker investors.

Sometimes people invest money wisely. Sometimes they invest very poorly.

We could talk about the South Sea Bubble, the Cazique of Poyais, tulip mania, Beanie Babies; we could talk about the dot-com bubble, Lehman Brothers, Bernie Madoff, Washington Mutual.

But if a dude who can't figure out how to quote-reply thinks that an example of successful investment means that large investments are always going to be successful, well, that dude probably has a lot of work to do on basic logic skills before we can have a worthwhile conversation.
 
Use the AI story generator as tool, don't let it write the whole story for you..Feed it your original ideas and let it build on those. It's always interesting to see where AI takes your ideas and fantasies. AI story tellers tend to repeat themselves, circling back to a previous scene..that's a dead give away. Tell the ai story generator to create stories at a certain reading level, what person the story is be told from, first second or third. Long complicated sentences are another dead give away, create a story on paragraph at a time, sometimes I use what ai created as an idea then embellish it.
Have fun...
Don't encourage anyone to use AI for Lit though.

We just gone through two years all about that, we don't need another go-around.
 
I've used AI in my erotica writing exactly once...

To help brainstorm a funny name for a Sushi/Pizza fusion restaurant in a college town 😅

And it didn't supply the name I ended up using, it just generated enough examples that it helped me shake one loose in my brain!

The actual narrative writing AI produces is basically useless, it doesn't have any intentionality behind it, it'll just write in circles without any understanding of plot momentum or motivation.
 
I've used AI in my erotica writing exactly once...

To help brainstorm a funny name for a Sushi/Pizza fusion restaurant in a college town 😅

And it didn't supply the name I ended up using, it just generated enough examples that it helped me shake one loose in my brain!

The actual narrative writing AI produces is basically useless, it doesn't have any intentionality behind it, it'll just write in circles without any understanding of plot momentum or motivation.

I don't use AI for anything, if I can't write it on my own, then I need to hang up the fountain pen.
 
Okay, look. If an AI rejects you, you need to accept that it's just not interested in you. Don't harass it or stalk it, just...

Oh, wait. Sorry, wrong type of rejection.
 
Is rejection happening to anyone who was having stories accepted into the file a year ago, or is it newer authors being scrutinized? Following writing adjustment suggestions such as Simon is giving might well keep you from being rejected at Literotica, but I wouldn't accept limitations to this degree in writing a story just to get it in the Literotica file. I already curb my writing to a slight extent to be published here, but at some point you are sacrificing your voice too much.
I completely agree. Having to do anything to a story in order to avoid AI rejection rather than doing what the writer thinks the story needs is a serious limitation in fiction writing. I recently had a story rejected for use of AI (the only program I used was an old Word program) because of a two paragraph section that was meant to be corny, camp and cliched in a humourous, satirical sort of way. To change these paragraphs would impair a crucial aspect of the story.
 
There have been many threads lately by authors whose stories have been rejected by the Site for not passing the AI-generation screening. There seem to be a great deal of false positives.

I'm not an expert in AI, but I've also never had this problem with my stories, and I've read enough AI-generated stories and seen samples of text that apparently were rejected that I think I have some idea why these stories are being rejected, and I have some recommendations that I think may help avoid rejection. Keep in mind, I don't KNOW for sure that these ideas will avoid rejection. I welcome any additional suggestions people may have. The purpose of this thread is to offer positive suggestions. So here goes:

1. The number one suggestion is NOT to use true AI tools to write your story. Don't use things like ChatGPT. Just don't do it, period.
2. If you use tools like Grammarly and similar tools (I use them all the time), use them to identify problems, but don't accept all of their proposed solutions. Correct clear grammatical, spelling, and punctuation problems (but see below). But DON'T regularly follow their suggestions for rewording things or for restructuring your sentences.
3. In fact, make a point of REJECTING the tool's suggestions, and add a distinctive word of your own here and there.
4. Be conscious of whether your story reads like it's written as an essay. This, to me, is what a lot of AI-generated prose reads like. The sentences are too long, and the structure and flow are too monotonous. Too many commas.
5. Consciously mix up the length of your sentences and paragraphs. Mix short ones with long ones. I've noticed that with AI-generated text there's a tendency for sentences and paragraphs to feel the same.
6. Sometimes make your dialogue grammatically incorrect. People do not speak in a grammatically perfect manner, and the SUREST sign that your writing is overinfluenced by AI is that your dialogue sounds smooth and perfect just like your narrative. Mix in filler words like "like" and "you know," because that's the way real people, but not machines, talk.
7. Spice up your prose. Have a distinctive style. Add descriptive words and phrases here and there that are unusual. Add metaphors and similes -- but try to make them yours; don't just add cliches, i.e., "pleased as punch."
8. Re-read your text, and replace some bland verbs with more interesting ones. DON'T use AI for suggestions for replacement words. Look them up or think them up yourself.
9. Make your prose vivid and specific. AI-prose tends to have a vague, abstract, generalized quality. There's a lack of concreteness. Be concrete and specific. I think the more you show rather than tell, the less likely you are to be tagged for AI. If your character is climbing a mountain, don't just tell the reader that the character was challenged by the experience; show the reader exactly how their hands were bruised and dirtied.
10. Do things that good editors know are perfectly fine in fiction, but that machine editors might chide you for--like starting a sentence with "And" or "But." There's nothing wrong with that. End sentences with prepositions. Avoid writing like a pedant. ESPECIALLY in dialogue.

That's it for now. I welcome other suggestions. Based on my limited experience with the AI phenomenon, I think these ideas will help. I'll add more if I think of more ideas.
I think it's a huge mistake for a writer to base their style, sentence structure, tone, etc on whether or not the publisher may judge it as too AI-ish. The writer needs to do what he or she thinks is right for the story (including writing like a pedant or creating perfect sounding dialogue or any number of things you mentioned,) if that's what is called for, not what might get them past AI radar.
 
My suggestion:

Think about how your sentences and paragraphs are structured. Identify what elements belong together, and split your sentences accordingly. Transition to the next sentence or paragraph like a camera panning over the scene. Every element that you present should follow logically from the one before.
I admit, I sometimes have unusual ideas for where paragraphs should break -- odd for a former English major.
 
And I keep asking, without much response, whether this is something happening to new authors here rather than ones established before the AI problem became a problem. Is the site letting established authors through on this and only putting the thumbs to new author attempts? Does the site, in fact, have enough handle on how to be right most of the time on the call of what is too much AI support (whatever that is) or is it knee-jerk insulting writers on how much originality they are putting into their writing--and only challenging new submitters on it because they realize established writers were doing their thing before AI support was a thing?
The short answer to your question is no, it's not just new authors.
 
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