Why so many recycled stories?

[p_white98]

I've read A LOT of the stories on here. Many are exceedingly well written and I always give a good Stars. Thanks to those authors.

Lately I'm noticing a lot of the NEW Stories really aren't new. After reading a few paragraphs, I can remember reading the story before. Often a story is only days or weeks old, yet it appears to be written by a different author with a current publication date. I can understand that there may not be 100 submissions per day. There are likely seasonal trends.

Just wondering if anyone else notices this?

 

[Britva415]

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/how-do-we-report-suspected-plagiarism.1581309/

 

[EmilyMiller]

Plagiarism?

 

[Djmac1031]

Lack of originality and creativity.

That said, we all recycle the usual tropes. Sometimes the best we can aspire to is to put our own unique spin on a classic story trope.

 

[Bamagan]

There might be a glitch happening, though. I noticed that a story by @AlinaX got published on 7/28 and then again on 8/5, with all of its stats apparently intact (as displayed on the hub page, anyway). I kind of shrugged it off as probably an edit that got quickly processed, but there's a possibility that a bug is double-posting stories sometimes.

 

[Ciceri]

I've read A LOT of the stories on here. Many are exceedingly well written and I always give a good Stars. Thanks to those authors.

Lately I'm noticing a lot of the NEW Stories really aren't new. After reading a few paragraphs, I can remember reading the story before. Often a story is only days or weeks old, yet it appears to be written by a different author with a current publication date. I can understand that there may not be 100 submissions per day. There are likely seasonal trends.

Just wondering if anyone else notices this?

I think it’s lack of creativity. There’s so much cliche and it seems like most readers are okay with that. When I began writing here, I hadn’t read much in the way of eroticism and that brought some originality to my stories. You can read those here or at my original page ( Cicero6 ). I lost access to that one but it’s still up.

 

[AlinaX]

There might be a glitch happening, though. I noticed that a story by @AlinaX got published on 7/28 and then again on 8/5, with all of its stats apparently intact (as displayed on the hub page, anyway). I kind of shrugged it off as probably an edit that got quickly processed, but there's a possibility that a bug is double-posting stories sometimes.

I requested a title change.

 

[Bamagan]

I requested a title change.

Makes sense. I was just a bit surprised to see it get posted to the new list again, since edits usually don't do that. Or at least not in the past.

 

[AlinaX]

It has happened every time I requested a title change in the past two years, which I do when a standalone story becomes the first in a series.

 

[p_white98]

I think there are numerous recycled stories. Is it systemic? When I read a story which I remember, I try to search for the original. Nothing Found... If it was plagiarism, the original story should still be there. I've yet to find such a case.

 

[BellaBestia]

Deja vu or a glitch in the litrix

 

[gunhilltrain]

Lack of originality and creativity.

That said, we all recycle the usual tropes. Sometimes the best we can aspire to is to put our own unique spin on a classic story trope.

Sometimes it's worth going back and revisiting one of your older works. I decided to continue a very old series (from five years ago) because I saw interesting aspects of a character who had been had a secondary presence in the original. I did reprise some events from earlier chapters to make things clearer. I guess the basic plot is a classic trope, but I think I've found some unique spins on it.

 

[Bazzle]

90% of my stories are the same...Girl lights cigarette, looks horny at man or women, has wet pants, the end.

10% girl doesn't light cigarette and still ends up with wet pants.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Is it the same story, or the same plot arc?
Without getting all "Hero with a 1000 faces" on you, there really are only so many plots to go around. Stories are often variations on universal themes. Ferngully, Avatar, and Dances with Wolves are all the same story. Often what makes a story great is how well it's executed.

 

[SkyBubble]

I can understand that there may not be 100 submissions per day.

No one knows how many stories are submitted per week (except Laurel, obviously), but it's estimated at 200-250.

 

[alohadave]

Makes sense. I was just a bit surprised to see it get posted to the new list again, since edits usually don't do that. Or at least not in the past.

I had a story edit to change the title and it went back on the new list. It was a nice bump in views even though commenters were wondering how an old story got on the new list.

 

[Bamagan]

I had a story edit to change the title and it went back on the new list. It was a nice bump in views even though commenters were wondering how an old story got on the new list.

It surprises me that such is the case. It kind of feels like double-dipping in a way. I had gotten the impression that edits didn't put things back on the front page, but clearly I was mistaken.

 

[alohadave]

It surprises me that such is the case. It kind of feels like double-dipping in a way. I had gotten the impression that edits didn't put things back on the front page, but clearly I was mistaken.

Maybe it's just for titles. I don't know, I've only ever done the one edit.

 

[SkyBubble]

I think there are numerous recycled stories. Is it systemic? When I read a story which I remember, I try to search for the original. Nothing Found... If it was plagiarism, the original story should still be there. I've yet to find such a case.

I wonder if any authors are plagiarizing themselves.

 

[LisaMayTurner]

I've read A LOT of the stories on here. Many are exceedingly well written and I always give a good Stars. Thanks to those authors.

Lately I'm noticing a lot of the NEW Stories really aren't new. After reading a few paragraphs, I can remember reading the story before. Often a story is only days or weeks old, yet it appears to be written by a different author with a current publication date. I can understand that there may not be 100 submissions per day. There are likely seasonal trends.

Just wondering if anyone else notices this?

Artificial Intelligence is just a massive plagiarism tool. The end of new ideas is being born.

 

[notexactlymelville]

Artificial Intelligence is just a massive plagiarism tool. The end of new ideas is being born.

I think it stems from a fear of being "low quality" honestly. Like it fools them into thinking they're being creative because they offer the stem, without realizing the stem is usually pretty common and all the good stuff happens in the broken sometimes awkward offshoots that AI really, really struggles to replicate.

Everybody wants to be slick, and it's boring as hell.

 

[LisaMayTurner]

Or nobody is slick at all, and it's even more boring than watching the washing going around and around while waiting for fast spin?

I think it stems from a fear of being "low quality" honestly. Like it fools them into thinking they're being creative because they offer the stem, without realizing the stem is usually pretty common and all the good stuff happens in the broken sometimes awkward offshoots that AI really, really struggles to replicate.

Everybody wants to be slick, and it's boring as hell.

As slick as a brick?

 

[gunhilltrain]

Deja vu or a glitch in the litrix

I took the red pill for the Litrix a while back. Having seen it, I can't unsee it.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I think it stems from a fear of being "low quality" honestly. Like it fools them into thinking they're being creative because they offer the stem, without realizing the stem is usually pretty common and all the good stuff happens in the broken sometimes awkward offshoots that AI really, really struggles to replicate.

Everybody wants to be slick, and it's boring as hell.

There's a lot of AI posts on Facebook. After a number of years, I started looking at the site again for the historical photos. The AI posts will ramble on for a number of unnecessary paragraphs. It mostly sounds like realtor ads or PR from a Chamber of Commerce even if the photo is ninety years old. AI photos look bad too, often a jumble of different pieces that don't line up with each other.

Since I don't read much on Lit any longer (sorry!), I don't know what AI erotica is like.

 

[cdstefi]

There's a lot of AI posts on Facebook. After a number of years, I started looking at the site again for the historical photos. The AI posts will ramble on for a number of unnecessary paragraphs. It mostly sounds like realtor ads or PR from a Chamber of Commerce even if the photo is ninety years old. AI photos look bad too, often a jumble of different pieces that don't line up with each other.

Since I don't read much on Lit any longer (sorry!), I don't know what AI erotica is like.

There's a couple of easy spots to identify AI on Facebook now.

When you get a page pushed at you that you've never looked at before, usually connected with something you're interested in that the algorithm has decided you want to see, you can bet your ass it's AI. Wouldn't surprise me if Facebook itself is generating a lot of these to "create engagement".

It may look on the surface like a pukka enthusiast page but they always give themselves away, usually with what looks like a lengthy and erudite exposition on something that looks like it's been written by a committee of super-keen interns who've done basic research but don't actually know their subject very well. Often accompanied by an irrelevant or incorrect photo or two. I've seen instances where the person who actually took the photo has asked why the page is using it without permission or citation (they never EVER cite sources, another giveaway).

This so-called content is just stuff that's being scraped from genuine sites that people have put a lot of work into, either personal or e.g. Wikipedia, then repackaged badly in the name of "engagement".

The most egregious one I've seen was one with what looked like interesting posts on quirky historic engineering (specifically aero engines that were mostly technological dead ends). It'd post the short form article on Facebook with a couple of pics to hook you in, then invite you to read further with links that led to an ad-infested website. And all the content, photos and text was totally ripped off, verbatim, from a brilliant, deeply researched and ad-free site called Old Machine Press. I did actually request Facebook take that one down for plagiarism, but it's honestly like plugging a hole in the dam with a forefinger.