"AI" Rejection

[bawdybloke]

I have almost 150 works on Literotica; these span many years, and most have a rating of 4.0 or above with a handful of 4.5 (Hot) or above. In short, I know how to write a half-decent story, and have been turning my twisted imagination into tales that people enjoy for years. I have had the odd story rejected for it's content but never this ...

Is this normal?

Is this because I don't use a Literotica Volunteer Editor, but have my own people I bounce ideas and stories off of?

I write in Scrivener, and use ProWritingAid to highlight my grammatical faux-pas which I manually correct, before sending it to my alpha-readers. Has anyone else had this sort of issue before?

Dear Writer,

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Slightly disconcerted TBH and rather annoyed that hand-crafted work would be flagged like this.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Slightly disconcerted TBH and rather annoyed that hand-crafted work would be flagged like this.

There must be something in the prose that makes it read as if it's AI generated.

If it genuinely isn't AI, resubmit it with a note to the Editor and confirm that it's not.

But I'd cast my eye over it critically first, and ask yourself, is this cliché, is this repetitive, is this bland and formulaic, style wise.

 

[burgwad]

Other things that might trip an AI censor's AI sensors:

• Illogical or impossible character behavior; esp. of the anatomical variety
• Rambling, dream-like sense of time and/or place
• Seemingly important characters appearing out of nowhere, changing names, switching genders, etc.
• Massive, unexplained, mid-scene shifts in tone, pace, prosody, etc.
• Dialog that is choppy, circular, cliche-addled, and (during sex scenes) chockful of aggressive and annoyingly formatted porn-like vocalizations

 

[TheRedChamber]

Other things that might trip an AI censor's AI sensors:

• Illogical or impossible character behavior; esp. of the anatomical variety
• Rambling, dream-like sense of time and/or place
• Seemingly important characters appearing out of nowhere, changing names, switching genders, etc.
• Massive, unexplained, mid-scene shifts in tone, pace, prosody, etc.
• Dialog that is choppy, circular, cliche-addled, and (during sex scenes) chockful of aggressive and annoyingly formatted porn-like vocalizations

Buddy, you just described my whole oeuvre.

 

[burgwad]

Buddy, you just described my whole oeuvre.

I hope that's okay?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Buddy, you just described my whole oeuvre.

Just call me HAL .

 

[dmallord]

Not to worry bawdybloke. These kind folk didn't mean to disparage your great work.

What they meant to say is Lit has a 'heightened alert' screening for AI works. The inclusion of those might get Lit into a legal quagmire over copyright ownership, so it forbids the text generation aspects - though, as noted, you can still use your assisting tools e.g. word processor spell checker and such - Just not something that writes the story as you feed it an idea and it pounds out your plot, actions, etc and you paste and claim it is truly your work with those glitchy things everyone else has tagged above.

As electricblue66 noted, "If it genuinely isn't AI, resubmit it with a note to the Editor and confirm that it's not." Laurel will follow through and get it back on track for our readership.

 

[XerXesXu]

The inclusion of those might get Lit into a legal quagmire over copyright ownership, so it forbids the text generation aspects -

It might, in the sense that this Bill may pass:

Hawley Bill - No S230 Immunity

Currently, Lit has immunity in respect of everything it hosts. I don't know how far this bill has got, but it seems a hysterical and particularly stupid response to the imagined threats AI poses. I'd be amazed if it passed.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I have almost 150 works on Literotica; these span many years, and most have a rating of 4.0 or above with a handful of 4.5 (Hot) or above. In short, I know how to write a half-decent story, and have been turning my twisted imagination into tales that people enjoy for years. I have had the odd story rejected for it's content but never this ...

Is this normal?

I don't think there is a well-established "normal" on this particular topic right now. Generative AI is new, everybody's still figuring out how to deal with it, things are in flux. Nobody was getting stories rejected for "AI" a couple of years ago because it just wasn't an issue then. Now it is.

If @Laurel felt like sharing the info, I'd be interested to hear how their submissions have changed since the advent of generative AI, whether they're getting a ton of AI-like stories or only a few.

 

[bawdybloke]

Other things that might trip an AI censor's AI sensors:

• Illogical or impossible character behavior; esp. of the anatomical variety
• Rambling, dream-like sense of time and/or place
• Seemingly important characters appearing out of nowhere, changing names, switching genders, etc.
• Massive, unexplained, mid-scene shifts in tone, pace, prosody, etc.
• Dialog that is choppy, circular, cliche-addled, and (during sex scenes) chockful of aggressive and annoyingly formatted porn-like vocalizations

I don't think that it has anything that's too cliched or beginner-heavy. As I said, I am closing in 150 submissions, with over 500,000 total words written and the vast most of my stuff is 4.0+; I'm not a great erotic author but I'm not a noob either. I'd like to think that I don't hit anything like the above.

Three characters, 4000 words, two scenes of note, A little turn to make the story vaguely interesting. Out of everything, this was not what I expected to be flagged for!

 

[ElectricBlue]

I don't think that it has anything that's too cliched or beginner-heavy. As I said, I am closing in 150 submissions, with over 500,000 total words written and the vast most of my stuff is 4.0+; I'm not a great erotic author but I'm not a noob either. I'd like to think that I don't hit anything like the above.

Three characters, 4000 words, two scenes of note, A little turn to make the story vaguely interesting. Out of everything, this was not what I expected to be flagged for!

Unfortunately, you've hit something. Hope you can figure it out. If/when you do, you should pop back here and let us know what the issue was.

 

[grenefire]

I'm experiencing this too. I resubmitted my story after taking out some of the more flowery AI type of writing but it still got rejected. Maybe it is because I use Grammarly, and have taken their suggestions for sentence structure changes. Who knows but after having 20 stories all with 4.5 ratings and higher, it is pretty frustrating.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I like SAL better!

Just call me HAL .

 

[Lordoflol]

I'm experiencing this too. I resubmitted my story after taking out some of the more flowery AI type of writing but it still got rejected. Maybe it is because I use Grammarly, and have taken their suggestions for sentence structure changes. Who knows but after having 20 stories all with 4.5 ratings and higher, it is pretty frustrating.

The same thing is happening to me, after 25 published chapters of my story they sent back chapter 26 for this reason.

I guess my main problem is that english is not my native language and I write everything in spanish and then use a translator.

Right now I have no idea what I have to change because it's all written by myself, without any help from any AI.

If anyone has a solution I would appreciate it.

By the way, I have also written this message in spanish and then used a translator. I understand English perfectly but I feel much more comfortable writing in Spanish, which is my native language.

 

[dmallord]

I'm experiencing this too. I resubmitted my story after taking out some of the more flowery AI type of writing but it still got rejected. Maybe it is because I use Grammarly, and have taken their suggestions for sentence structure changes. Who knows but after having 20 stories all with 4.5 ratings and higher, it is pretty frustrating.

I have a subscription to Grammarly Pro and have used it for the last year. Sometimes, I accept its responses - they seem logical for the most part but produce a quirky response sometimes. It doesn't like colloquialisms or 'normal' dialogue in regional speech patterns. It doesn't produce those AI characteristics cited. Even as I type this, it spends most of its time correcting typos - not offering sentence structure changes per se.

Over the last four months, I've submitted five stories. Nothing is flagged in them at this point. So, for what it is worth, Grammarly seems to fit the standard for grammar assistance similar to MS Word's spelling, type ahead, and grammar checker capabilities.

For instance, you wrote:

"Maybe it is because I use Grammarly, and have taken their suggestions for sentence structure changes."

Grammarly suggests this change to sound more confident:

It could be because I use Grammarly and have taken their suggestions for sentence structure changes.

 

[dmallord]

The same thing is happening to me, after 25 published chapters of my story they sent back chapter 26 for this reason.
I guess my main problem is that english is not my native language and I write everything in spanish and then use a translator.
Right now I have no idea what I have to change because it's all written by myself, without any help from any AI.
If anyone has a solution I would appreciate it.
By the way, I have also written this message in spanish and then used a translator. I understand English perfectly but I feel much more comfortable writing in Spanish, which is my native language.

I would offer the same advice as has been given previously. Resubmit the story with a note to the Editor box that "you affirm this is your original work and not AI-generated."

 

[StillStunned]

Surely, all you have to do to beat the AI-based AI recognition tools is to include the sentence: "This is not AI-generated."

 

[ElectricBlue]

If anyone has a solution I would appreciate it.
By the way, I have also written this message in spanish and then used a translator. I understand English perfectly but I feel much more comfortable writing in Spanish, which is my native language.

I think you should resubmit your text, no changes, with a similar Note to the Editor as you have here.

If the site is introducing a tool to "recognise" AI and it's false finding, then the onus should be on the site to explain what is triggering. After all, only a human mind will be able to actively respond and address that, given that AI is artificial, but not intelligent. But there needs to be something to respond to, not a generic statement. @Laurel to consider, please (asked on behalf of the frustrated folk in this tread - who sound human to me).

 

[u1u1u1]

Having the same issue. Got a story sent back. It was a BDSM story where I worked hard to keep track of characters' poses and relative positions. One of my characters has a very strong personality that I don't think an AI (with current tech levels) could generate. My male lead spells his name during cunnilingus. If there's an AI that can depict that sort of stuff accurately then please send me a referral code, lol.

Some of my prose is a bit repetitive, so I reworked it to try and cut out that stuff (good practice anyway - don't want readers to get bored of my constant "electricity" metaphors!). Ran some extracts through AI content detectors and most are saying it's human generated. The exception is one called GPTZero, which thinks about 30% of the story is AI generated, including mundane sentences like "Emily's eyes widened" or "Her heart raced" or ""They're lovely."". Seems to really hate adverbs. Can only assume that's what Laurel or Manu is using. But now I'm just changing things to try and get the detector to think I wrote them, rather than to actually make them better.

I submitted the story again and instead of getting sent back, it was outright rejected. I've made some more changes and written in the notes section that the story is not AI generated. Hope that does the trick.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I don't think simple, matter-of-fact sentences will get you flagged, like, "Emily's eyes widened." Illogical, haphazard sentence structure and actions might.

 

[djrip]

Having the same issue. Got a story sent back. It was a BDSM story where I worked hard to keep track of characters' poses and relative positions. One of my characters has a very strong personality that I don't think an AI (with current tech levels) could generate. My male lead spells his name during cunnilingus. If there's an AI that can depict that sort of stuff accurately then please send me a referral code, lol.

Some of my prose is a bit repetitive, so I reworked it to try and cut out that stuff (good practice anyway - don't want readers to get bored of my constant "electricity" metaphors!). Ran some extracts through AI content detectors and most are saying it's human generated. The exception is one called GPTZero, which thinks about 30% of the story is AI generated, including mundane sentences like "Emily's eyes widened" or "Her heart raced" or ""They're lovely."". Seems to really hate adverbs. Can only assume that's what Laurel or Manu is using. But now I'm just changing things to try and get the detector to think I wrote them, rather than to actually make them better.

I submitted the story again and instead of getting sent back, it was outright rejected. I've made some more changes and written in the notes section that the story is not AI generated. Hope that does the trick.

I disagree with anyone changing their writing just to avoid triggering an AI detector. Write what you're going to write and explain that you wrote all of it in the note to the editor. Maybe if enough people do this they'll change their AI detector or something.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I disagree with anyone changing their writing just to avoid triggering an AI detector. Write what you're going to write and explain that you wrote all of it in the note to the editor. Maybe if enough people do this they'll change their AI detector or something.

This. We need to get clarity on the trigger phrases and/or sentence structures, so we can compile the differences between human writing and derivative word prediction software (let's not call it AI, because it isn't).

I think we can all recognise AI when we read it, but reducing it to the "reasons why" does get a little harder.

 

[grenefire]

I disagree with anyone changing their writing just to avoid triggering an AI detector. Write what you're going to write and explain that you wrote all of it in the note to the editor. Maybe if enough people do this they'll change their AI detector or something.

This comment hit me right in the gut. I had my writing flagged by AI and I know I wrote it. I just put it through several AI detectors and was amazed to see what was flagged. Even sex scenes were flagged and chatgpt won't even write those!

 

[Stimtheone]

I still don't put stock in AI being able to write. I tried several of those systems. They have the attention span of a child, or worse than one. They can't keep the line of thought for more than a paragraph.

Still, interesting times if there's such a scare from it that stuff you make could be passed as made by an AI.

 

[HeyAll]

I have almost 150 works on Literotica; these span many years, and most have a rating of 4.0 or above with a handful of 4.5 (Hot) or above. In short, I know how to write a half-decent story, and have been turning my twisted imagination into tales that people enjoy for years. I have had the odd story rejected for it's content but never this ...

Is this normal?

Is this because I don't use a Literotica Volunteer Editor, but have my own people I bounce ideas and stories off of?

I write in Scrivener, and use ProWritingAid to highlight my grammatical faux-pas which I manually correct, before sending it to my alpha-readers. Has anyone else had this sort of issue before?

Dear Writer,

Thank you for your submission to Literotica. We appreciate the time and effort you've taken to write a story and submit it to our site . However, we've found that we cannot post your submission in its current form. The checklist below may help you in re-examining your manuscript.

• Literotica is a storytelling community centered on the sharing of human adult fantasies. While we do not have a policy against using tools to help with the writing process (i.e. spellcheck, grammar suggestions, etc.), we do ask that all work published on the site at this time be created primarily by a human. Please see this FAQ for more information: https://literotica.com/faq/publishing/publishing-ai

Please feel free to re-submit the story after a Volunteer Editor has examined it, or after you've made revisions. You can find a list of Volunteer Editors here.

Please consult our Writer's Resources section and make sure you read our submission guidelines.
If you have any questions on these, please let us know.

Thanks for your time, and look forward to reading you again!

Laurel & Manu
Literotica.Com

Slightly disconcerted TBH and rather annoyed that hand-crafted work would be flagged like this.

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