Anyone used AI to find stories?

[donaldelliott11]

Most of the story searches here are either "help me find a specific story I read but now cannot find - here are the details I remember..." or "help me find stories to read that involve x, y,and z". And we have all mostly used either Literotica's own search functions, or used Google pointed to site:literotica.com.

Is this a task now best given to some kind of AI tool? Anybody tried?

 

[atam12]

I use grok and yandex sometimes, when google does not give me good results.

 

[darwin1859]

Hmm. I was going to say "No, AI doesn't do that..." but I'm changing my answer to "Yes," because I tried it out with Google's "AI Mode" and I was really impressed.

I used this prompt below, which describes my series, "Women's Studies," and the first hit was part 1 (actually the "prologue," part 0) of my series.

I read a story on literotica.com about a professor who is experimenting with a memory-altering drug. He uses it to wed a pretty, wealthy graduate student. Then he uses it to get revenge on his ex-wife. I think her name was Maggie. Can you find that story?

That's pretty good, but I think these good results are because Google's AI has access to Google's comprehensive web index. I tried the same prompt on ChatGPT and it "searched the web" but did not find it:

I was not able to locate the exact story you described on literotica.com using the search terms available. The site does host a huge number of user-submitted erotic stories across many genres, including science fiction, memory manipulation themes, and academic settings — but I could not find a result matching the plot you recalled (professor using a memory-altering drug to marry a graduate student and then get revenge on an ex-wife named Maggie) with the searches I ran.

The way these LLMs "search the web" is they find pages matching the query in a search index (a database of pages that they've crawled in the past). Google's search index is deep and broad and I think it indexes most/all of Literotica. OTOH, OpenAI just started crawling the web in the last 1-2 years and probably it's not comprehensive.

So, I would trust that an AI that "does a web search" might have good results, if its consulting a comprehensive web index. I wouldn't trust the answer from the model without input from the web (or some other "tool" that provides relevant context).

I did a couple more examples to see how robust these results were. First, I picked another post here about two stories where that Mandlovu had already found them (and they're gone from the site). Google's AI mode found one of the two. It hallucinated that the first story was by jake989 (actually it was jeffrey214). It showed the correct URL for Busy Beaver's story (Part 1: https://www.literotica.com/s/remember-the-beavers-ch-01). It did not indicate that either author had left the site. Prompt:

I'm looking for two stories that I read on literotica.com. First one is called "She Wanted A Younger Man". Been so long since I read it I can't remember the author but it was about a Wife who bragged to her hubby about taking a younger Man
Other was a little more well known and called "Remember the Beavers" which was in three or four parts by Bushy Beaver about a kid whose Mom gets propositioned by the football team - The Beavers.
Any help would be great. I can find all the old stories I remember except these two for some reason.

I picked another post where the OP posted the story link and Google's AI did not find this one, possibly because the story is very long and the description might not have been very good. Prompt:

I'm looking for a romance story published on literotica.com where the characters share an apartment and, at the beginning, she has relationships with other people, including two men at the same time, while the protagonist listens.
She's supposedly a redhead, engages in anal sex, and that's basically all I remember from the story.

I tried a couple other LFS posts where no one had replied and the AI Model didn't seem to do well on either one. I suspect that the AI is as powerless as we are when the details recalled are not good.