Why so many recycled stories?

[Jodaily]

I recall reading that plagiarizing is the sincerest form of of flattery, but I suppose I’m just plagiarizing.

 

[alohadave]

Artificial Intelligence is just a massive plagiarism tool.

How do you reconcile using an AI generated avatar?

 

[LisaMayTurner]

How do you reconcile using an AI generated avatar?

I don't have to as it's not a story. Human beings writing stories need creative imaginations. Using an avatar that looks almost like me is not a story.

 

[Robin_Starveling]

1. First-class creative minds are unlikely to choose this platform to showcase their wares.

2. Positive feedback is the main incentive for most writers. The safest way to get it is to give readers what they already want. Recycling material that has proven popular is lazy but also risk-free. True originality may backfire.

 

[StillStunned]

1. First-class creative minds are unlikely to choose this platform to showcase their wares.

First-class creative minds choose this platform because it allows them to showcase their wares to a vast global audience, without wasting their time and energy on finding a publisher.

2. Positive feedback is the main incentive for most writers. The safest way to get it is to give readers what they already want. Recycling material that has proven popular is lazy but also risk-free. True originality may backfire.

True originality has a greater likelihood of being rewarded than constantly regurgitating the same trite stories, both in terms of positive feedback from readers and peers and in satisfaction for the writer.

 

[Nynah]

I don't have to as it's not a story. Human beings writing stories need creative imaginations. Using an avatar that looks almost like me is not a story.

It was created using art stolen from actual human artists, so it's still plagiarism and theft. Creativity and imagination is not constrained to telling stories. Visual artists have just as much right to not have their work stolen as writers do. GenAI takes things from all creatives, 99% of the time without their consent or knowledge and with no compensation.

 

[Robin_Starveling]

First-class creative minds choose this platform because it allows them to showcase their wares to a vast global audience, without wasting their time and energy on finding a publisher.

True originality has a greater likelihood of being rewarded than constantly regurgitating the same trite stories, both in terms of positive feedback from readers and peers and in satisfaction for the writer.

Obviously, a simpleton like myself wouldn’t realize he’d stumbled into a first-class genius’ shrine. But I do know that farting is a healthy way to release excess hot air.

 

[StillStunned]

But I do know that farting is a healthy way to release excess hot air.

No-one's stopping you.

 

[MissEmmEss]

I'm kind of guilty of this. I deleted my profile along with my stories, and I'm reuploading them (when they don't get rejected as AI written... )

 

[gunhilltrain]

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.

I don't remember much of what Facebook was like years ago. It seemed to be more of people promoting their own lives. I don't know where all of the present material comes from - some of it does have credits, I think. Whatever, enough of it is interesting anyway. The membership is definitely - older (like me!). At the beginning it was more appealing to younger people. Some of the comments are a bit of geezer griping. "Why did they have to demolish Penn Station?" Hey, that was over sixty years ago.

To promote myself regarding lingerie: Read my upcoming story My Year with Michelle, Ch. 04 in about ten days. It will be in the Romance category.

 

[gunhilltrain]

1. First-class creative minds are unlikely to choose this platform to showcase their wares.

2. Positive feedback is the main incentive for most writers. The safest way to get it is to give readers what they already want. Recycling material that has proven popular is lazy but also risk-free. True originality may backfire.

So what is a better platform for creative minds? Does that even include me? Do they take erotica? The Paris Review doesn't count!

https://www.theparisreview.org/about/submissions

https://www.theparisreview.org/about/prizes

So the late Norman Mailer won a Hadada Prize. Many years ago he wrote one the the worst erotic short stories I've ever seen, "The Time of Her Time." "The story depicts macho Irish Catholic bullfighting instructor Sergius O'Shaugnessy and his sexual conquest of a young, middle-class Jewish college girl." On Monroe Street in Manhattan, of all place. (Where does he keep the bulls?) For a while it was available online, but I don't think it is now.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I don't have to as it's not a story. Human beings writing stories need creative imaginations. Using an avatar that looks almost like me is not a story.

Stealing from other writers bad.

Stealing from other artists not bad?

 

[gunhilltrain]

Stealing from other writers bad.

Stealing from other artists not bad?

I think she means that she used AI to create a self-portrait.

 

[RoperTrace]

Plagiarism?

I listen to several(many) stories on YT obviously written and narrated by AI. They repeat constantly, with slight variations, often just changing the names of characters and towns where they reside. It seems that YT doesn't care about plagiarism at all. Some of copies are laughable, where they take a story theme and to make it different they insert aliens with humans, often on space stations or different alien worlds. Some of the most inventive copies are where they change the characters to the old west, making them ranchers, or sheriffs with barmaids. None of these are erotic, except the acts might be implied.
In case you're wondering why I listen, I have early-stage catarracts and some problems with vertigo relating to my eyes, so I read much less these days.

 

[RoperTrace]

I wonder if any authors are plagiarizing themselves.

I thought they(we) all did.

 

[IWroteThis]

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

I was wondering the same thing. I just had an edit go through to fix the italics in a story and it did not get put back on the New Stories list.

 

[Statius]

Damn gremlins been at it for a while

 

[NaughteeDragon]

I recall reading that plagiarizing is the sincerest form of of flattery, but I suppose I’m just plagiarizing.

In the words of the great Lobaczevski, “please to be calling it ‘research’”

5 points to anyone that actually gets the reference.

 

[NaughteeDragon]

In case you're wondering why I listen, I have early-stage catarracts and some problems with vertigo relating to my eyes, so I read much less these days.

I’ve been using Speechify. I did a 1 year subscription and will definitely renew. I use it for editing google docs and listening to stories here on Lit or books on kindle that don’t have an audible file.

 

[Zootonius]

On a related note, there aren't that many plots on porn. Boy meets girl, boy meets two girls, girl meets two boys, girl meets girl, girl meets tentacled space alien...

 

[Jodaily]

On a related note, there aren't that many plots on porn. Boy meets girl, boy meets two girls, girl meets two boys, girl meets girl, girl meets tentacled space alien...

And you missed the one about one girl meets 20 boys and a tentacled alien. That has become so common, almost cliche.

 

[kreemi_pi]

Plagiarism?

it's the BOTS Emily!

 

[M_K_Babalon]

It's easy to write a basic story with a simple plot. Son and sister or mom end up fucking in the trunk of the station wagon/suv on a road trip, because dad can't pack worth a damn. Wife cheats on husband with co-worker/higher up. One bed. My room mate is trans and she's my first dick in the mouth and ass.

It's even easier to plagurize. Probably one of those.

 

[kreemi_pi]

On a related note, there aren't that many plots on porn. Boy meets girl, boy meets two girls, girl meets two boys, girl meets girl, girl meets tentacled space alien...

Yeah and we can't involve [redacted], [redacted], or [redacted] so that closes off a lot promising ideas.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

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?

There are only so many ideas, so many themes to write. it's only normal that they get recycled. I think we're rapidly approaching a literary singularity at which point all stories will suddenly coalesce into a single massive story with infinite characters doing infinite various illicit things to each other, probably written by either @onehitwanda, @StillStunned, or @EmilyMiller