"AI" Rejection

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

I use this site a lot because I find the basic Said, asked, told, gets boring to read and write after a while. Using different words connotes the tone that I’m trying to convey with the dialogue.

https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/other-words-said-synonyms

Use tags only if needed. Use descriptive sentences in between what they say in a long single speech to identify the person speaking by their actions. If tags aren't needed, don't use them. Once a back-and-forth is established, just rotate between the two parties.

 

[djrip]

None of this checks as being AI. However, you have a lot of double spaces in the text.

I had double spaces in all my work until Keith and Em gave me a stern talking to about it.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

My favorite tag from the early 20th century and late 19th is "Johnny, you're a hoot," he ejaculated. LOL totally different meaning these days.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

I had double spaces in all my work until Keith and Em gave me a stern talking to about it.

Bet it wasn't mid-sentence, was it, or was it? The odd thing is they don't show unless you copy and past them elsewhere.

 

[djrip]

Bet it wasn't mid sentance was it or was it?

You got me there.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

You got me there.

His was.

 

[EroticCupcake]

In all these threads I see lots of adverbs and dialog tags other than "said / asked." I don't know if this is AI evidence, but this is very common "don't do that advice." Maybe there is no AI detector, just a creative writing teacher pushed over the edge.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

In all these threads I see lots of adverbs and dialog tags other than "said / asked." I don't know if this is AI evidence, but this is very common "don't do that advice." Maybe there is no AI detector, just a creative writing teacher pushed over the edge.

He ejaculated, rolling his eyes as he stormed away from the woman he just cursed out and then ejaculated adverbs all over.

 

[EroticCupcake]

He ejaculated, rolling his eyes as he stormed away from the woman he just cursed out and then ejaculated adverbs all over.

Needs more adverbs.

Stormed needs to be converted to "walked away angrily" and cursed out to "talked rudely."

 

[jaF0]

I had the same thing happen to me this evening. The second part of my series that had been up for almost two weeks was pulled for the AI reasoning, and the third part was rejected for the same reason. I'm so confused

^^^^ .... vvvvv

Can you post a few paragraphs of your story so we can see ?

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

@Portly_Penguin

Woah. That really got pulled for AI?
It's very skillful prose as far as I can tell, and reads nothing like what an AI might generate.

If the rest of your story reads like that, I find it unsettling that it was pulled for AI.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Yup. It's been up for almost two weeks and then got pulled today along with the third part of the story being rejected for the same reason. Oddly enough, the first part wasn't pulled

I'd resubmit it as is, with a note to the Editor stating that it was written without the aid of AI, and if an author's statement is not to be accepted, politely ask where the suspected text is.

You can't fight the case without samples, and the site needs to know that.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'd resubmit it as is, with a note to the Editor stating that it was written without the aid of AI, and if an author's statement is not to be accepted, politely ask where the suspected text is.

You can't fight the case without samples, and the site needs to know that.

Yup. Clearly whatever AI-detector they're using is broken, and the only option there is to bring it to the attention of the person who can switch off the detector.

I'd say "fix the detector" but I don't have faith that such a thing is possible.

 

[MillieDynamite]

What the Fuck is going on here? I haven't had anything pulled for AI. I know, sometimes, I have some scene business that's wooden or, more to the point, self-plagiarized as I tend to repeat some things, like packing a cigarette before the person lights it or other such standard business. Not much of what I'm seeing here looks at all AI-generated to me. But I'm not an AI looking for another AI. Hum, have they taken the plot from Person of Interest to heart here? Are they depending on AI to find AI and not reading anything to make a self-determination?

 

[Bamagan]

I wonder if trolls are (arbitrarily) reporting stories as being AI generated. I suppose the site could be doing sweeps looking for suspicious content, maybe concentrating on people who have newer stuff getting kicked back, but it seems strange that something would be pulled after having been published already.

 

[wordwa]

If the site gave us rules/guidelines to avoid our content as being flagged as AI generated, then those guidelines could be fed to the AI to avoid. If adding a note to the editor, "I pinky swear this isn't AI generated" is all it takes, then people could just AI generate content and add that note. This sort of thing isn't simple to solve.

What's more, there's a lot of hearsay about how they "detect" AI generated content, but we shouldn't change our writing to sound less like AI, or the AI is succeeding in reducing us and our creations. Until we get official word from the site on how they detect AI (which would be a bad idea for them to do), or we do a bunch of tests, submitting the same story modified in a specific way to see if that modification triggered the AI detector (which could also be changing its detection parameters as we're doing this), it's just guesswork to try figure out how the AI detector decides whether something is AI generated or not.

There's no simple/easy solution to this.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Sigh, this is sad, so sad! Goslin kadokes, at their trollish best, if that is what's happening.

 

[grenefire]

I have now submitted a story three times and each time it has been rejected due to accusations of AI use. I am at a loss. I keep changing things and changed some more things today, but I don't know what else I can do to get them to believe I wrote the damn thing myself. This is my 21st story for this site. I don't know what else I can do. I submitted the story last time saying that I wrote it myself, yet it was still rejected. I don't know what I am doing wrong.

Any suggestions???

 

[djrip]

I have now submitted a story three times and each time it has been rejected due to accusations of AI use. I am at a loss. I keep changing things and changed some more things today, but I don't know what else I can do to get them to believe I wrote the damn thing myself. This is my 21st story for this site. I don't know what else I can do. I submitted the story last time saying that I wrote it myself, yet it was still rejected. I don't know what I am doing wrong.

Any suggestions???

Direct PM to Laurel?

 

[LetsMisBehave]

I wonder whether Grammarly is part of the problem. While it is a useful tool, it does risk standardising stories; I find I reject about a third of the suggestions because they either make things too formal or actually make things worse.

 

[grenefire]

Direct PM to Laurel?

How do you contact Laurel? Is there a link or email address?

 

[djrip]

How do you contact Laurel? Is there a link or email address?

Envelope icon at top right, start new conversation, put Laurel as recipient.

 

[Cali_Love]

I will never, ever use Grammarly, Scrivener, et. al. Conspiracy theory maybe, but their algorithms are where the AI triggers are hiding, as innocuous as they may look, you can't really see them. I'd rather be wrong than have something put words in my story anyway. I don't even go often with Google Docs suggestions most of the time. My story is my story, my words. I will admit I use an ancient version of Word (that's the best) to catch spelling errors that Google doesn't catch, but even then, I like to make up my own words sometimes, so not always helpful.

All that said, I dumb down the text another notch and save my stories in Word 97-2003 .doc format before submitting to further strip it clean of modern day and hidden lurkers.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I will never, ever use Grammarly, Scrivener, et. al. Conspiracy theory maybe, but their algorithms are where the AI triggers are hiding, as innocuous as they may look, you can't really see them. I'd rather be wrong than have something put words in my story anyway. I don't even go often with Google Docs suggestions most of the time. My story is my story, my words. I will admit I use an ancient version of Word (that's the best) to catch spelling errors that Google doesn't catch, but even then, I like to make up my own words sometimes, so not always helpful.

I think you may be confused about what Scrivener is/does. It's not a "put words in my story" kind of tool. I think there's a spelling/grammar tool somewhere in one of the menus, similar to the one in Word, but that's optional and not the main point of the product.

I have over 100k words on this site which went through Scrivener, and every one of those words is a word I typed myself.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Grammarly doesn't change anything. You can accept or reject changes its suggestions. Sometimes, it suggests something that makes it read better, sometimes it doesn't. I take some of them, I reject more of them. It has an AI function where you mark text and ask for suggested rewrites. I don't use that function.

I will never, ever use Grammarly, Scrivener, et. al. Conspiracy theory maybe, but their algorithms are where the AI triggers are hiding, as innocuous as they may look, you can't really see them. I'd rather be wrong than have something put words in my story anyway. I don't even go often with Google Docs suggestions most of the time. My story is my story, my words. I will admit I use an ancient version of Word (that's the best) to catch spelling errors that Google doesn't catch, but even then, I like to make up my own words sometimes, so not always helpful.

All that said, I dumb down the text another notch and save my stories in Word 97-2003 .doc format before submitting to further strip it clean of modern day and hidden lurkers.