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I'm in mild shock. I asked Microsoft's Co-pilot (packaged with the Office subscription) to summarize my most recent story (Change Management). I was expecting it to fail, badly, because much of what's in the story is implied but not described. Bugger me sideways if it didn't come back with an accurate description (below). I'd rate it a 7/10 at least - when I asked it to do a deeper dive, it didn't quite get some of the Machiavelli stuff right. Also, it completely ignores the criticism of AI contained in the story.

Does anybody else want to play? Post an AI analysis of your own story, and rate its accuracy.

Summary of the Story

Genre: Corporate satire, psychological thriller, dark comedy, horror

Main Characters:

  • Adam: A mid-level corporate employee, cynical and disillusioned, whose career unexpectedly accelerates after a series of morally questionable events.
  • Lilith: Deputy CEO, later CEO. Intelligent, manipulative, seductive, and ultimately revealed to be a predator with a taste for power—and possibly human flesh.
  • Ginevra: Finance executive, initially a cautious ally of Adam, later becomes Lilith’s close confidante and successor.
  • DJ: Narcissistic CEO, ultimately disgraced and eliminated.
  • Terry: Deputy CEO (Corporate), traditionalist, dies during a Halloween prank orchestrated by Adam and Lilith.
  • Susie: Lilith’s assistant, naive but increasingly involved in the power games.

Plot Overview

Adam, a jaded corporate worker, attends a change management workshop where he mocks the process and accidentally attracts the attention of Lilith, a powerful and feared executive. She summons him for a private meeting, where he candidly criticizes the company’s leadership and impresses her with his insight.

Their relationship quickly becomes intimate and conspiratorial. Lilith seduces Adam both intellectually and sexually, drawing him into a plot to remove the CEO (DJ) and Deputy CEO (Terry). Adam orchestrates a Halloween prank that results in Terry’s death, and Lilith later engineers DJ’s downfall through scandal.

Adam is promoted but becomes increasingly drained by Lilith’s demands—both professional and sexual. Eventually, he disappears, and it’s implied that Lilith has killed and possibly consumed him, using his remains as fertilizer and food.

Ginevra replaces Adam as Lilith’s new protégé and lover. The story ends with Ginevra taking over as acting CEO while Lilith is mysteriously “ill,” hinting that Ginevra may be continuing Lilith’s legacy—or surpassing it.


Themes

  • Corporate power and manipulation
  • Sexual politics and exploitation
  • Dark satire of change management and leadership culture
  • Cannibalism and horror as metaphors for corporate consumption
  • Transformation and succession

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To be fair, you're actually using the thing for a purpose to which it is actually suited/intended. And you have the expertise to ensure fidelity.

Turns out when you use a tool for the job it's made for, that's better than when you do the opposite of that. Who'd have thought.
 
To be fair, you're actually using the thing for a purpose to which it is actually suited/intended. And you have the expertise to ensure fidelity.

Turns out when you use a tool for the job it's made for, that's better than when you do the opposite of that. Who'd have thought.
Well, yes. In that sense you can view this as an 'AI friendly' thread. Although it's very interesting that the AI summary of the story completely ignored a line that contained a trenchant criticism of AI!
 
I'm in mild shock. I asked Microsoft's Co-pilot (packaged with the Office subscription) to summarize my most recent story (Change Management). I was expecting it to fail, badly, because much of what's in the story is implied but not described. Bugger me sideways if it didn't come back with an accurate description (below). I'd rate it a 7/10 at least - when I asked it to do a deeper dive, it didn't quite get some of the Machiavelli stuff right. Also, it completely ignores the criticism of AI contained in the story.

Does anybody else want to play? Post an AI analysis of your own story, and rate its accuracy.

Summary of the Story

Genre: Corporate satire, psychological thriller, dark comedy, horror

Main Characters:

  • Adam: A mid-level corporate employee, cynical and disillusioned, whose career unexpectedly accelerates after a series of morally questionable events.
  • Lilith: Deputy CEO, later CEO. Intelligent, manipulative, seductive, and ultimately revealed to be a predator with a taste for power—and possibly human flesh.
  • Ginevra: Finance executive, initially a cautious ally of Adam, later becomes Lilith’s close confidante and successor.
  • DJ: Narcissistic CEO, ultimately disgraced and eliminated.
  • Terry: Deputy CEO (Corporate), traditionalist, dies during a Halloween prank orchestrated by Adam and Lilith.
  • Susie: Lilith’s assistant, naive but increasingly involved in the power games.

Plot Overview

Adam, a jaded corporate worker, attends a change management workshop where he mocks the process and accidentally attracts the attention of Lilith, a powerful and feared executive. She summons him for a private meeting, where he candidly criticizes the company’s leadership and impresses her with his insight.

Their relationship quickly becomes intimate and conspiratorial. Lilith seduces Adam both intellectually and sexually, drawing him into a plot to remove the CEO (DJ) and Deputy CEO (Terry). Adam orchestrates a Halloween prank that results in Terry’s death, and Lilith later engineers DJ’s downfall through scandal.

Adam is promoted but becomes increasingly drained by Lilith’s demands—both professional and sexual. Eventually, he disappears, and it’s implied that Lilith has killed and possibly consumed him, using his remains as fertilizer and food.

Ginevra replaces Adam as Lilith’s new protégé and lover. The story ends with Ginevra taking over as acting CEO while Lilith is mysteriously “ill,” hinting that Ginevra may be continuing Lilith’s legacy—or surpassing it.


Themes

  • Corporate power and manipulation
  • Sexual politics and exploitation
  • Dark satire of change management and leadership culture
  • Cannibalism and horror as metaphors for corporate consumption
  • Transformation and succession

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Does it add your story to its training database?
 
I think putting stories anywhere online does that, maybe. Not totally sure. But it seems like they scrape everything they can.
 
Does it add your story to its training database?
Not my own master copy (which is what I asked it to analyse), at least not in the paid Microsoft 365 version - it stores a history of prompts. However, as @djrip has pointed out, all of these stories are published on the web, so AI tools will access those.
 
Not my own master copy (which is what I asked it to analyse), at least not in the paid Microsoft 365 version - it stores a history of prompts. However, as @djrip has pointed out, all of these stories are published on the web, so AI tools will access those.
If we ever need AI killed, I was thinking feeding it my stories might be akin to the common cold with the Martians in War of the Worlds.
 
I'm curious, and I do have access to the enterprise version of copilot that doesn't turn your input into training data... But I don't really want to attach my smut to my professional work account 😱
 
If we ever need AI killed, I was thinking feeding it my stories might be akin to the common cold with the Martians in War of the Worlds.
"Hi Copilot, please write some anal in the style of Emily Miller."

With pleasure, but I'm going to need another 24 hours and half of California's water supply to recover first.
I'm curious, and I do have access to the enterprise version of copilot that doesn't turn your input into training data... But I don't really want to attach my smut to my professional work account 😱

Okay, I had a look. Result below. I followed up by asking it specifically to look on Literotica for the original story, and it couldn't find it - interesting.

Summary of "Dandelion Greene and the Witch of Watson County":

This Southern Gothic fantasy tale follows Dandelion Greene, a curious and independent 19-year-old woman living in Watson County. After the mysterious death of Margie Colton, an elderly woman found with a witch ball in her mouth, Dandelion helps the undertaker retrieve her body—only to discover Margie isn't quite dead. The witch ball was a seal placed by Calpurnia, a powerful witch and Margie's secret lover, to allow Margie peaceful death after 120 years of life prolonged by magical love.

Dandelion, intrigued and empathetic, agrees to help Margie return to Calpurnia deep in the Appalachian hollers. Along the way, she encounters supernatural threats like a seductive spirit named Billy and a fearsome creature called the Hidebehind. Eventually, she reaches Calpurnia’s magical cottage, where Margie and Calpurnia share one final night together—using Dandelion’s body as a vessel for Margie’s soul.

The story ends with Dandelion waking alone, gifted with food, clothing, and a silver dime as a token of gratitude. She returns Margie’s remains for burial and resolves to go to college, seeking knowledge to better understand the mysteries of her land and its folklore.


Themes:

  • Appalachian folklore and witchcraft
  • Queer love and aging
  • Feminine agency and curiosity
  • The tension between tradition and modernity
  • Coming-of-age and self-discovery

Source Identification:

The story appears to be a work of original fiction, possibly self-published or shared online. It is written in a rich, vernacular style reminiscent of authors like Manly Wade Wellman, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, or T. Kingfisher, but I couldn't find a direct match in known published works. If you'd like, I can search the web to confirm its origin or author—would you like me to do that?
 
I think putting stories anywhere online does that, maybe. Not totally sure. But it seems like they scrape everything they can.
Literotica has set their robots.txt to "disallowed" for the major AI scrapers, but it's up to them whether they actually honour that "please don't scrape us" request.
 
It is written in a rich, vernacular style reminiscent of authors like Manly Wade Wellman, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, or T. Kingfisher
Now THIS bit is interesting...

I swear I didn't read Wellman until AFTER writing the Dandelion story, but he's such an Urtext for the genre that I guess I ended up third-hand emulating the style 😅

And also now I have a few new books in my reading list!
 
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Does it add your story to its training database?
Short answer: With ChatGPT, it's up to you.


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But, as @Bramblethorn said, stories on the Lit site are unlikely to be included.

Summarising text is what LLMs are great at. Just don't ask it to "rate" your stories, unless you're just looking to stroke your ego.
If you insist on using it to critique your stories, be sure to tell it what to look for (e.g. grammar, pace, comprehensibilty)
 
I'm in mild shock. I asked Microsoft's Co-pilot (packaged with the Office subscription) to summarize my most recent story (Change Management). I was expecting it to fail, badly, because much of what's in the story is implied but not described. Bugger me sideways if it didn't come back with an accurate description (below). I'd rate it a 7/10 at least - when I asked it to do a deeper dive, it didn't quite get some of the Machiavelli stuff right. Also, it completely ignores the criticism of AI contained in the story.

Does anybody else want to play? Post an AI analysis of your own story, and rate its accuracy.

Summary of the Story

Genre: Corporate satire, psychological thriller, dark comedy, horror

Main Characters:

  • Adam: A mid-level corporate employee, cynical and disillusioned, whose career unexpectedly accelerates after a series of morally questionable events.
  • Lilith: Deputy CEO, later CEO. Intelligent, manipulative, seductive, and ultimately revealed to be a predator with a taste for power—and possibly human flesh.
  • Ginevra: Finance executive, initially a cautious ally of Adam, later becomes Lilith’s close confidante and successor.
  • DJ: Narcissistic CEO, ultimately disgraced and eliminated.
  • Terry: Deputy CEO (Corporate), traditionalist, dies during a Halloween prank orchestrated by Adam and Lilith.
  • Susie: Lilith’s assistant, naive but increasingly involved in the power games.

Plot Overview

Adam, a jaded corporate worker, attends a change management workshop where he mocks the process and accidentally attracts the attention of Lilith, a powerful and feared executive. She summons him for a private meeting, where he candidly criticizes the company’s leadership and impresses her with his insight.

Their relationship quickly becomes intimate and conspiratorial. Lilith seduces Adam both intellectually and sexually, drawing him into a plot to remove the CEO (DJ) and Deputy CEO (Terry). Adam orchestrates a Halloween prank that results in Terry’s death, and Lilith later engineers DJ’s downfall through scandal.

Adam is promoted but becomes increasingly drained by Lilith’s demands—both professional and sexual. Eventually, he disappears, and it’s implied that Lilith has killed and possibly consumed him, using his remains as fertilizer and food.

Ginevra replaces Adam as Lilith’s new protégé and lover. The story ends with Ginevra taking over as acting CEO while Lilith is mysteriously “ill,” hinting that Ginevra may be continuing Lilith’s legacy—or surpassing it.


Themes

  • Corporate power and manipulation
  • Sexual politics and exploitation
  • Dark satire of change management and leadership culture
  • Cannibalism and horror as metaphors for corporate consumption
  • Transformation and succession

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Did you cut and paste the story in copilot or let it go out and find it?

If I give it just the title, I get summaries from where the story is posted online and suspect that the site influences the summary.
 
Did you cut and paste the story in copilot or let it go out and find it?

If I give it just the title, I get summaries from where the story is posted online and suspect that the site influences the summary.
I pasted it (I really want to say ‘in bite sized chunks’ given the context, but it was all at once).
 
I won’t feed AI my work, but this made me curious to know if I’ve been scraped… so I asked chatgpt who Jackie Hikaru is and this is what I got:

Jackie Hikaru is a writer specializing in erotic / romantic fiction, particularly with queer (female/female) characters, often set in heightened contexts (historical Japan, espionage scenarios, power/forbidden relationships). She often weaves in suspense, betrayal, secrets, and emotional intensity. She seems to own her “smut writer” identity (i.e. not hiding the erotic nature).

Then I asked it to write a short excerpt imitating the style of Jackie Hikaru:

The garden lanterns burned low, their light trembling against the silk of her kimono. I could smell the sea in her hair—salt and jasmine and danger. When she turned, the air itself seemed to pause, as if the night were ashamed to intrude. Her gaze wasn’t soft; it was a blade wrapped in velvet, asking whether I was brave enough to bleed. And when her hand found mine, the world contracted to a pulse, a secret, and the quiet promise of ruin.

Hikaru’s style, as this imitates, fuses sensual tension with emotional risk—lush prose, restrained violence, and intimacy that feels half-confession, half-espionage.

What I’ve learned is:
1. I guess I’ve been scraped
2. Blech, curses on that AI slop 🤮 (please tell me I don’t actually write like that)

N.B., I publish under this name on other sites so it may not be scraping from here.
 
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