Could long pending and upload times be resolved by an AI Moderator?

[sinfantasy]

I wonder at what exact moment people started seeing AI as a solution for everything...

Just read a news about some top exec suggesting, laid-off employees should use AI to manage their emotions.
What's worst is some morons accepting this as a great idea.

Unfortunately, its already happening

 

[Bramblethorn]

Just read a news about some top exec suggesting, laid-off employees should use AI to manage their emotions.
What's worst is some morons accepting this as a great idea.

It's the kind of thing people say when they're looking to give themselves permission to do something that, deep down inside, they know is wrong. Kind of like the old "kill them all, God will know His own". It's not that they really expect AI to help laid-off employees, it's more that they want it to offload the responsibility.

 

[OddLove]

When our stories get approved, they're still giving future publish dates, typically a day or two after approval.

Even if AI instantly approved our stories, we'd still be waiting several days to get our stories published.

There seems to be a set pace for publishing stories, and I think it's so every story gets a day or two on the first page of their category/genre.

If stories were published instantly, it would only incentivize people to flood the front page. Whether that be, rushing stories, reposting stories, or splitting a story into tiny chapters/parts, it would just turn into a 'who can spam the most' type of competition.

So even if AI could speed things up, I wouldn't prefer it.

 

[ElectricBlue]

There seems to be a set pace for publishing stories, and I think it's so every story gets a day or two on the first page of their category/genre.

Laurel tries to spread the output for each category as evenly as possible, which means high volume categories might see more delay than slower moving categories. As an example, I had a short Non-erotic story go live in about 36 hours, while one in EC waited three days once it was cleared.

 

[WayneButane]

Maybe it's just because I'm more used to Fanfiction.net where the uploads are instant, but my story has been in pending for almost four days now. Look, I get these stories have to have a higher level of scrutiny compared to other sites due to the content, but maybe there's a way to... streamline it? I know us writers see AI as a threat to our creativity and originality and this site has a policy against AI writers, but maybe the site could set up an AI to act as a moderator. Or at least as a filter assistant. I'd imagine that upload times would greatly increase in that scenario. Thoughts?

An AI mod would be horrible. It would likely increase the work for human mods simply with the amount of false rejections. And that's really the crux of what's wrong with so much of this AI hypetrain. It just can't be relied on to not make something up. Maybe it'll get better, or maybe this is the plateau for this tech. They really can't say for sure, but they're still selling this to replace customer service reps and doctors/telehealth visits. When Trump's medicare cuts go through, guarantee they'll be pushing some ChatGPT powered doctor/therapist for those kicked off. And it will only be a matter of time before it blows up in their face when it tells someone to drink bleach or worse. Obviously the problems here wouldn't be that severe but hopefully you see my meaning.

I do think writers/artists shouldn't feel as nervous about AI replacing them. It will flood the markets with slop, but the hunger for human-made content will remain/grow. It's not a replacement for human creativity. It could be used as a tool to augment human creativity if you already know a thing or two about the medium, but that's not how the broligarch is marketing this to us. So you get a lot of bozos who've never read a short story before thinking the slop they've just cranked off is good enough for publication. You'll see them in AI subreddits whining about literary journals "gatekeeping" by rejecting their trash story, not understanding that most lit journals are only kept alive from donor/academic funding.

My point is the spark of human creativity is not easy to replicate. You might have to work a little harder to be seen, but there will still be people looking for it. That's about as much optimism as I can muster these days.

 

[Nightaelf]

Aaaaand drink

Still or again?