AI help please

[2xtourists]

I have been asked to help a writer (through the Editors Program) with a story that he/she says he/she has 'just used AI to enhance'. I'm new to the site, but my understanding is that if the story is submitted, it will be rejected, anyway, because the use of AI will be detected. So would I be right in telling him that first?

 

[Duil2]

I have been asked to help a writer (through the Editors Program) with a story that he/she says he/she has 'just used AI to enhance'. I'm new to the site, but my understanding is that if the story is submitted, it will be rejected, anyway, because the use of AI will be detected. So would I be right in telling him that first?

Yes, I think so. I'm also part of the Editors Program and I would let them know up front that they are likely to be rejected if any AI is detected in their writing. To my mind there isn't much point in both you and them putting time into something that the site probably won't publish in the end.
I would ask if they have a pre-enhanced version of their story and if you're inclined to, you could offer to help edit and humanly 'enhance' that.
Being brutally honest, unless their own writing is very bad, AI will not enhance it. It will just make it generic, bland and possibly a bit non-sensical.

 

[Britva415]

would I be right in telling him that first?

"First?"

You'd still get involved with this, knowing that you'd be party to breaking the rules if it were ever submitted?