Being accused of using writing software

[just_to_pass_the_time]

I’m going to get on my soapbox here. I’m sick and tired of the moderators accusing me of using AI based writing software! I’m extremely literate and have OCD, so I proofread my own stories over and over again. I use the Notes app on iCloud to type them. THAT IS NOT WRITING SOFTWARE! Mods, if you’re reading this, KNOCK IT OFF! I’m sorry if you seem to think that your writers can’t be literate enough to make sure their own stories are written correctly!

 

[AlinaX]

Good for you, but you're venting into the wind here. There are some threads around here that may help you find a solution.

 

[StillStunned]

That must be really frustrating.

The thing is that Lit has a very strict "no AI" policy, for which we generally assume a couple of reasons: to prevent the site from being inundated by a flood of easily generated but bland slop by people who think that entering a prompt into ChatGPT constitutes writing; and to prevent any legal backlash if and when all these LLMs are judged to be copyright theft.

Overall their process seems to work pretty well in keeping out the slop, but unfortunately it does mean that human-written works sometimes get caught in the net by accident.

All you can do is resubmit your story, and in the "Notes to the Admin" field explain that you haven't used any AI. In the meantime, my personal suggestion is to take a good look at your writing and ask yourself what is triggering the rejection. AI tends to generate a very uniform, bland style that works alright (superficially at least) for business writing, but for fiction - and erotic fiction in particular - it lacks the liveliness to make the story appealing. I've not seen your writing, obviously, but this is something you can look at yourself: does my story read more like a memo than my favourite novel?

Good luck!

 

[onehitwanda]

I’m going to get on my soapbox here. I’m sick and tired of the moderators accusing me of using AI based writing software! I’m extremely literate and have OCD, so I proofread my own stories over and over again. I use the Notes app on iCloud to type them. THAT IS NOT WRITING SOFTWARE! Mods, if you’re reading this, KNOCK IT OFF! I’m sorry if you seem to think that your writers can’t be literate enough to make sure their own stories are written correctly!

... and breathe.

Pros:

Passable proto-rant.

Cons:

Requires more expletives and imagination.
Overuse of capitalization hinders score.
Performed in incorrect location before jaded audience.
Clearly emotional rather than heartfelt.

Final score: 3/10

Advice for ranter: Think about the effect you wish your rant to have, and try to channel that into your next rant.

 

[just_to_pass_the_time]

... and breathe.

Pros:

Passable proto-rant.

Cons:

Requires more expletives and imagination.
Overuse of capitalization hinders score.
Performed in incorrect location before jaded audience.
Clearly emotional rather than heartfelt.

Final score: 3/10

Advice for ranter: Think about the effect you wish your rant to have, and try to channel that into your next rant.

That actually made me smile and laugh, thank you. You’re right, my apologies.

 

[Bamagan]

Just for the sake of perspective, in the past week the site has published 1,524 stories: a fairly typical week by the standard of the last couple of years. That's approximately 217 per day. If each story gets only three minutes of attention, that's about 11 hours of work per day for one person... not including the time spent on anything that had to be rejected. And to the best of our knowledge, it is just one person doing the approvals. I expect she has a number of tools that pare down the list somewhat, including something that tries to bounce back AI-derived text. I don't know how much such stuff is submitted, but if it's even 5% of the amount that gets approved, that's ten or eleven 'stories' per day that delay someone else's pending work.

 

[FrancesScott]

I’m going to get on my soapbox here. I’m sick and tired of the moderators accusing me of using AI based writing software! I’m extremely literate and have OCD, so I proofread my own stories over and over again. I use the Notes app on iCloud to type them. THAT IS NOT WRITING SOFTWARE! Mods, if you’re reading this, KNOCK IT OFF! I’m sorry if you seem to think that your writers can’t be literate enough to make sure their own stories are written correctly!

Given I’ve written a pastiche of a 1920s Literary Novel with complex / arcane vocabulary and sentence structures, I doubt your problem is being too literate. All of my - admittedly small number of - submissions have been approved pretty much immediately.

The detection of AI is not an exact science and yields false positives and false negatives. I’m sorry if you are in the former camp. But I’m sure you would agree that the site has to try to do something.

You seem to be writing in T/I, maybe that attracts greater scrutiny. But that’s just speculation on my part. Neither I nor anyone on this thread knows for sure what happens and why.

Resubmit with a note.

You can’t post a large tract of your work here (especially as it’s been rejected), but if you could maybe share the first two paragraphs, something might be obvious.

 

[just_to_pass_the_time]

Given I’ve written a pastiche of a 1920s Literary Novel with complex / arcane vocabulary and sentence structures, I doubt your problem is being too literate. All of my - admittedly small number of - submissions have been approved pretty much immediately.

The detection of AI is not an exact science and yields false positives and false negatives. I’m sorry if you are in the former camp. But I’m sure you would agree that the site has to try to do something.

You seem to be writing in T/I, maybe that attracts greater scrutiny. But that’s just speculation on my part. Neither I nor anyone on this thread knows for sure what happens and why.

Resubmit with a note.

You can’t post a large tract of your work here (especially as it’s been rejected), but if you could maybe share the first two paragraphs, something might be obvious.

I did resubmit with a note. And here are the first two paragraphs…

"Ugh, again??" Tina mutters, picking up her 19 year old son Luke's dirty socks to do laundry. As soon as she touched them, she felt the stiffness and got a small whiff of his semen. She shakes her head as this keeps happening over and over again, becoming more frequent. Just as she's about to leave his room, Luke walks in.

"Um, Mom, what are you doing?" Luke asked suspiciously. He desperately wanted her to leave because he needed to get off NOW. His hard cock throbbed in his jeans from being cock blocked again by his girlfriend Jamie.

 

[FrancesScott]

I did resubmit with a note. And here are the first two paragraphs…

"Ugh, again??" Tina mutters, picking up her 19 year old son Luke's dirty socks to do laundry. As soon as she touched them, she felt the stiffness and got a small whiff of his semen. She shakes her head as this keeps happening over and over again, becoming more frequent. Just as she's about to leave his room, Luke walks in.

"Um, Mom, what are you doing?" Luke asked suspiciously. He desperately wanted her to leave because he needed to get off NOW. His hard cock throbbed in his jeans from being cock blocked again by his girlfriend Jamie.

It’s not an AI-related comment, but you seem to be mixing past and present tense.

Back to AI, based just on this snippet, your sentences seem a little awkward and strangely constructed. My impression was of a foreign language’s syntax being applied to English. But that’s just an impression / opinion.

Is English your first language. Apologies if that is insulting, I’m trying to help, not to criticize.

 

[onehitwanda]

It’s not an AI-related comment, but you seem to be mixing past and present tense.

It's also a fundamental grammar error - which then raises all sorts of questions about

I’m extremely literate and have OCD

 

[FrancesScott]

It’s not an AI-related comment, but you seem to be mixing past and present tense.

Back to AI, based just on this snippet, your sentences seem a little awkward and strangely constructed. My impression was of a foreign language’s syntax being applied to English. But that’s just an impression / opinion.

Is English your first language. Apologies if that is insulting, I’m trying to help, not to criticize.

If I may:

“Again?” Tina muttered. She had picked up one of Luke’s dirty socks and had an unpleasant surprise. She felt the stiffness of the fabric, smelled traces of semen. At nineteen? Her son was still jerking off in his socks at nineteen? And this was happening more and more; she shook her head. Then, just as Tina was about to leave his room, Luke walked in.

“Um, Mom, what are you doing?” he asked suspiciously. Why did his mother have to be here now? Right now, Luke wanted privacy. His cock was throbbing in his jeans. It was all his girlfriend Jamie’s fault. Making out was great, but she didn’t ever want anything more, and now he had this raging erection to deal with.

 

[FrancesScott]

I did resubmit with a note. And here are the first two paragraphs…

"Ugh, again??" Tina mutters, picking up her 19 year old son Luke's dirty socks to do laundry. As soon as she touched them, she felt the stiffness and got a small whiff of his semen. She shakes her head as this keeps happening over and over again, becoming more frequent. Just as she's about to leave his room, Luke walks in.

"Um, Mom, what are you doing?" Luke asked suspiciously. He desperately wanted her to leave because he needed to get off NOW. His hard cock throbbed in his jeans from being cock blocked again by his girlfriend Jamie.

I also took a look at your first story [obv published], it begins:

As she quickly drove home after leaving work early, 36 year old Emma Wells couldn't help but be pissed off at her forgetful 38 year old husband Thomas. While on lunch break, she received a text from her 18 year old son Jake. It said that Tom wasn't home yet to take his son to the first travel soccer practice for the new team he just joined. The family had recently moved across the state after Tom received a promotion at work. Emma thought about the phone conversation, or more accurately the phone argument, that she just had with Tom.

It’s your first story, we have all been there. I commend you for trying to be creative, it’s a big thing to put your words in front of other people.

But three ages randomly thrown in to the first paragraph is - at the very least - inelegant. I’d suggest maybe dripping these facts in over a longer period of time and with some context that makes the info seem more a natural part of the story.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

But three ages randomly thrown in to the first paragraph is - at the very least - inelegant.

AKA Data Dump.

 

[FrancesScott]

AKA Data Dump.

I’ve done it, you’ve done it. It’s common.

But it’s also something to learn to avoid, or at least to use judiciously.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I did resubmit with a note. And here are the first two paragraphs…

"Ugh, again??" Tina mutters, picking up her 19 year old son Luke's dirty socks to do laundry. As soon as she touched them, she felt the stiffness and got a small whiff of his semen. She shakes her head as this keeps happening over and over again, becoming more frequent. Just as she's about to leave his room, Luke walks in.

"Um, Mom, what are you doing?" Luke asked suspiciously. He desperately wanted her to leave because he needed to get off NOW. His hard cock throbbed in his jeans from being cock blocked again by his girlfriend Jamie.

 

[FrancesScott]

If I may:

“Again?” Tina muttered. She had picked up one of Luke’s dirty socks and had an unpleasant surprise. She felt the stiffness of the fabric, smelled traces of semen. At nineteen? Her son was still jerking off in his socks at nineteen? And this was happening more and more; she shook her head. Then, just as Tina was about to leave his room, Luke walked in.

“Um, Mom, what are you doing?” he asked suspiciously. Why did his mother have to be here now? Right now, Luke wanted privacy. His cock was throbbing in his jeans. It was all his girlfriend Jamie’s fault. Making out was great, but she didn’t ever want anything more, and now he had this raging erection to deal with.

These on-line AI checkers are pretty useless / scams. But for what it’s worth my version of your two paragraphs came back as written by a human. The only text flagged was the sentence in yellow above, which is sadly also the only bit I didn’t change from your original text.

 

[FrancesScott]

These on-line AI checkers are pretty useless / scams. But for what it’s worth my version of your two paragraphs came back as written by a human. The only text flagged was the sentence in yellow above, which is sadly also the only bit I didn’t change from your original text.

If I change that one sentence to;

“There was an urgent pressure in his jeans, one that demanded to be released.”

I get 0% AI and no text flagged whatsoever. I hope this is helpful to you.

 

[FrancesScott]

If I change that one sentence to;

“There was an urgent pressure in his jeans, one that demanded to be released.”

I get 0% AI and no text flagged whatsoever. I hope this is helpful to you.

Contrast this with the first two paragraphs of one of my stories:

Your Text is Human written

0% AI GPT*

They say not to get your honey where you get your money. Then maybe whoever coined that aphorism had never met Vanessa, or Van as she preferred to be addressed. Honey didn't really capture the extent of her considerable allure, particularly as she wore her sexual preferences as a badge of honor - often literally - making me both jealous and ashamed of my own much less brave approach. Then my personality had always been to stay in the background, to be unremarkable, safety lay in such an approach.

But there were still ways to signal that I was a kindred spirit. The days of advertising yourself as a lesbian via multi-colored nail polish had long gone, appropriated by incurably straight accent nails. But I was a climber, so the purple Black Diamond LiteWire clipped to my work backpack had the added advantage of plausible deniability, and thumb rings still seemed to be pretty much a femme thing. Despite my otherwise hetero appearance, Van made it clear that she knew.

Highlighted text is suspected to be most likely generated by AI*
978 Characters
170 Words

 

[FrancesScott]

Note to self #114 - if people want to vent about AI rejections, let them, instead of trying to help.

 

[StillStunned]

Note to self #114 - if people want to vent about AI rejections, let them, instead of trying to help.

It took me about six years of being married to learn that lesson.

 

[FrancesScott]

It took me about six years of being married to learn that lesson.

Should I ask a guy to coach me?

 

[StillStunned]

Should I ask a guy to coach me?

I don't think so. You seem to have learned the same lesson in a couple of months.

 

[FrancesScott]

I don't think so. You seem to have learned the same lesson in a couple of months.

It’s those Y chromosomes again. They impair cognitive development.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Note to self #114 - if people want to vent about AI rejections, let them, instead of trying to help.

Don't be too hasty. Maybe O.P. hasn't seen any of your suggestions yet. Either way, you went out of your way to help, and the rest is on them.

On topic, we often debate that leaving grammar and stylistic errors helps? AI supposedly doesn't make them, and it shouldn't mix tenses the way the O.P. did? Or does the algorithm only take into account each sentence individually, so the mixing of tenses doesn't come into play?

 

[StillStunned]

It’s those Y chromosomes again. They impair cognitive development.

Probably because we spend half our time wondering "Why?"