Never used AI; Yet my story rejected!

[chennai_rakshasan]

I have posted 81 stories so far in Literotica, most of them in Tamil, my native language. I have posted a few stories in English as well and being Indian, my English by and large resembles British English. I was fortunate to have the guidance and assistance of voluntary editors who helped me in posting stories free of spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. In my efforts to express better, I normally type the stories in my native language, use the in-built translation features in MS Word, make corrections wherever necessary and send it to a local friend who is a non-fiction writer. My voluntary editor mostly does proof-reading and sometimes shortens the paragraphs or delete sentences that he feels are superfluous. I am not a very tech-savvy person basically and know very little about AI in general, leave alone being used for writing erotic stories. One of the recent stories I have posted has been rejected under the pretext that it appears to have been written using AI. I really want to know how an author can prove that he hasn't used any external applications for writing stories to convince the Literotica approving panel. I am willing to submit all my drafts with all the trackings of changes that have been made and those made my editor. While I do agree that such automated stories should be discouraged, there must be some methodology to substantiate that the story has not been written by a human as is being suspected by Literotica. I request authors to kindly enlighten me as to how to sort out this issue. I appreciate and agree with Literotica's right to accept or reject stories but wanted to emphasize that I haven't used AI nor I would intend to do in the future. Looking forward to comments. Thanks a lot.

 

[Bamagan]

I suggest you condense your post and resubmit the story with the condensed version as an author's note. You should be able to include the Word document file with the changes even if you've entered the story in the provided text box, and if the change tracking is enabled, it can provide evidence if they need it.
At a guess, the automatic translation feature is likely what triggered the detector. Modern versions of Word have a lot of features that rewrite things using AI. Translation is a more legitimate usage, but the output will still be machine-generated and might get detected as such. It's usually grammatically correct, too, so your editor(s) could easily ignore it or miss it. Because it was machine translated, though, there's still a chance the site will reject it because of that fact. It's unfortunate, but they (Literotica) seem to want to be cautious with anything like that.

 

[chennai_rakshasan]

I suggest you condense your post and resubmit the story with the condensed version as an author's note. You should be able to include the Word document file with the changes even if you've entered the story in the provided text box, and if the change tracking is enabled, it can provide evidence if they need it.
At a guess, the automatic translation feature is likely what triggered the detector. Modern versions of Word have a lot of features that rewrite things using AI. Translation is a more legitimate usage, but the output will still be machine-generated and might get detected as such. It's usually grammatically correct, too, so your editor(s) could easily ignore it or miss it. Because it was machine translated, though, there's still a chance the site will reject it because of that fact. It's unfortunate, but they (Literotica) seem to want to be cautious with anything like that.

Thanks for your time and the reply. Shall try to follow in the future.

 

[filthytrancendence]

AwkwardMD has a thread over in the editor's forum offering help to folks in this situation.

 

[SkyBubble]

I have posted 81 stories so far in Literotica, most of them in Tamil, my native language. I have posted a few stories in English as well and being Indian, my English by and large resembles British English. I was fortunate to have the guidance and assistance of voluntary editors who helped me in posting stories free of spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. In my efforts to express better, I normally type the stories in my native language, use the in-built translation features in MS Word, make corrections wherever necessary and send it to a local friend who is a non-fiction writer. My voluntary editor mostly does proof-reading and sometimes shortens the paragraphs or delete sentences that he feels are superfluous. I am not a very tech-savvy person basically and know very little about AI in general, leave alone being used for writing erotic stories. One of the recent stories I have posted has been rejected under the pretext that it appears to have been written using AI. I really want to know how an author can prove that he hasn't used any external applications for writing stories to convince the Literotica approving panel. I am willing to submit all my drafts with all the trackings of changes that have been made and those made my editor. While I do agree that such automated stories should be discouraged, there must be some methodology to substantiate that the story has not been written by a human as is being suspected by Literotica. I request authors to kindly enlighten me as to how to sort out this issue. I appreciate and agree with Literotica's right to accept or reject stories but wanted to emphasize that I haven't used AI nor I would intend to do in the future. Looking forward to comments. Thanks a lot.

Sadly, that happens more often than it should.