AI: A New Era (2025)

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

I am still playing with an idea but I'll be damned if I can truly wrap my head around how to work it out. I swear i am thinking things through but I don't know if I will make the submission date.

I am working on finishing my Crime and Punishment and then the Halloween stories are right around the corner.

 

[SmilingLez]

I am almost finished with my prose tribute to the AI/meat suit bond. Not knowing much about AI, research came first

 

[secretLace]

I have that problem too Aoife, the story keeps growing and growing. 3000 words and still no smut in sight

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

I have that problem too Aoife, the story keeps growing and growing. 3000 words and still no smut in sight

I don’t think this theme of a story is meant to be for me, at least this year.

 

[bettiezyx]

I have finally started to write my AI story. How would you format the text to show that it is text in an app? She is prompted to answer a few questions about herself. Multiple choice questions. This is one on the questions but I can't decide on how to do them in the text.

How do you spend most of your time?
Work/Study
Looking after others
Trying to stay afloat
Taking care of myself (or trying to)
I don’t know

I'm not entirely certain, but some basic html code can be used <em>Italics</em>, then there's <b>bold</b>. I've tried other ways of handling the text, but most of the other commands aren't allowed. (-B

 

[secretLace]

Ill have to take a dive into the formating. I have settled into using italics whenever the AI speaks so you imediatly see the difference between the humans and the AI.

 

[WaxPhilosophic]

@secretLace If you submit your stories as plain text in the New Story textbox on the Lit site, I have a tool that might help with the italic markup.

https://waxphilosophic.sdf.org/LitMark/

Basically, you paste your plain text into my tool first, then you can highlight passages and format them using the toolbar buttons. It works similar to the way text is formatted in this (and other) forum posts.

When you're done formatting, copy to the clipboard and paste into the Lit New Story box.

There's a ? button on my tool's toolbar that will give you detailed help.

 

[WaxPhilosophic]

I don’t think this theme of a story is meant to be for me, at least this year.

Maybe next year?

 

[secretLace]

What a handy little tool @WaxPhilosophic <3

 

[WaxPhilosophic]

What a handy little tool @WaxPhilosophic <3

Thank you. I wrote it to help maintain my own sanity, but I'm happy to share.

 

[SmilingLez]

Can I submit prose to the AI challenge?"

 

[BryanRichardson]

Can I submit prose to the AI challenge?"

Sure, submit whatever you want!

 

[BryanRichardson]

My story is up:
https://literotica.com/s/ai-era-mulier-runs-amok

Over a whopping two votes and 100 reads it’s averaging a solid “5”!

 

[SmilingLez]

My story is up:
https://literotica.com/s/ai-era-mulier-runs-amok

Over a whopping two votes and 100 reads it’s averaging a solid “5”!

dude, excellent take on the AI challenge!

Gave 5 stars

 

[BryanRichardson]

Thanks SmilingLez!

Now its down to a more reasonable 4.2 with 5 votes and 287 views…

 

[IAmControl]

I have finally started to write my AI story. How would you format the text to show that it is text in an app? She is prompted to answer a few questions about herself. Multiple choice questions. This is one on the questions but I can't decide on how to do them in the text.

How do you spend most of your time?
Work/Study
Looking after others
Trying to stay afloat
Taking care of myself (or trying to)
I don’t know

IMO, shorter page breaks, to me, read like text bubbles, and you can use an ascii 'o' character to represent checkboxes (or just an 'o' if you want), so:

Here's a title:
o Option A
o Option B
o Option C

And for a text bubble, it might look like this, emphasised with italics to show it's someone's thoughts - even indirect:
Sally told me what you
said to her in the car.
That's crap and you
know it. I hate you for
telling her my secret.
Don't text me back.

Writing this just now - I realised I wonder if Word-written stories could make use of RTL and LTR writing formats? That could really add to the "my texts on the right, theirs on the left" style.

 

[IAmControl]

I actually have a question!

I have an AI story already (mostly) done, but I have another idea I really want to write! Is it possible at all to submit two stories, but only be eligible for the 'final running' and/or prize(s) on the best liked?

So, like, if I wrote two stories, and (NOT wishful thinking, don't worry!) one ended up in #2 and one in #10, could the one at #10 be invalidated and removed from the rankings (so it doesn't end up unfairly taking up someone else's spot?)

I know this could be really screwy with the rules and results so I don't expect a yes but that's why I'm asking, just in case!!

Good luck everyone regardless and happy writing!!!

 

[BryanRichardson]

I actually have a question!

I have an AI story already (mostly) done, but I have another idea I really want to write! Is it possible at all to submit two stories, but only be eligible for the 'final running' and/or prize(s) on the best liked?

So, like, if I wrote two stories, and (NOT wishful thinking, don't worry!) one ended up in #2 and one in #10, could the one at #10 be invalidated and removed from the rankings (so it doesn't end up unfairly taking up someone else's spot?)

I know this could be really screwy with the rules and results so I don't expect a yes but that's why I'm asking, just in case!!

Good luck everyone regardless and happy writing!!!

Challenges don’t have prizes.
They don’t even rank the contests, other than announcing 1,2, 3. And we can’t even see when or how those choices are made since sometimes (depending on last minute voting) the rankings don’t match what is visible when the rankings are announced.
Write the stories you want to write, and submit as many as you want.

 

[IAmControl]

Challenges don’t have prizes.
They don’t even rank the contests, other than announcing 1,2, 3. And we can’t even see when or how those choices are made since sometimes (depending on last minute voting) the rankings don’t match what is visible when the rankings are announced.
Write the stories you want to write, and submit as many as you want.

So no $1,000,000 prize then?! What the HELL?!?!
No no, all good - I guess I was mis-thinking as sort of a challenge with a winner, but yeah you're right, it's about the challenge itself! Cool, thank you!

 

[OffNSFW]

I submitted mine this morning. I belatedly noticed that the submission guidelines accessible from the main page are different from the ones at the beginning of the support thread. I went with the ones from the main page. Hopefully that was correct.

(My story is about a married guy who falls for a chatbot. Not exactly science fiction these days.)

 

[Not2Pervy]

I have a story that I wish I’d saved for this challenge, but I was too impatient to get it out there and shoehorned it into the April Fool’s contest instead.

The story, Tajna, tries to engage somewhat seriously with the possible future of AI matchmaking services and how they might be used or abused. Because I was including serious themes in addition to the (probably should have put in more) sexy stuff, I dropped it in Novels and Novellas even though it was only about 15K words.

Few people read it. It didn’t get many votes. I’m dropping a mention here just in case anyone is interested.

I sincerely wish best of luck to all who enter this challenge. I only wish I’d been a big enough boy to play in the sandbox with you.

 

[bettiezyx]

I grabbed the ones tagged "AI a new era"; if I missed yours, let me know!
https://scifieroticareviews.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/ai-a-new-era-2025/

 

[bettiezyx]

I submitted mine this morning. I belatedly noticed that the submission guidelines accessible from the main page are different from the ones at the beginning of the support thread. I went with the ones from the main page. Hopefully that was correct.

(My story is about a married guy who falls for a chatbot. Not exactly science fiction these days.)

I missed a significant difference. The "Notes" prompt is slightly different. Was there something else I'm not seeing?
(-B

 

[OffNSFW]

I missed a significant difference. The "Notes" prompt is slightly different. Was there something else I'm not seeing?
(-B

I think the only other difference I noticed is they added the instruction to start the title with "AI Era:"

It struck me as unusual, but I usually try to sneak the name of the event into my titles anyway (ex. "Eva's Tale - A 750 Word Story"), so it was no big deal to me.

 

[mrs_mackenzie]

I'm about nine-tenths done with an entry for this; which surprised me because normally I struggle with the AI prompt. But inspiration has struck, as they say.