rejected story

[ElectricBlue]

I guess I understand why Lit rejects AI, but they get a bit paranoid about it. (We just had a thread on paranoia.) I suspect that they are fighting a losing battle in the long run.

I dunno. Judging by the significant drop in, "My story has been rejected, suspected as being AI," threads, I reckon the site might be ahead of the game. I can't imagine the feed of AI junk is less than it was a year ago.

Alternatively, Laurel is letting the junk go through, and letting readers decide through their scores and comments. Who knows?

 

[DiamondF2017]

Read up on dialogue grammar and punctuation rules, and figure out what you're doing wrong. Don't use Grammarly, you'll make it worse (you run the risk of a rejection for using AI).

"My guess is your punctuation is outside the quotation marks, or you're using periods instead of commas". He said.

Something like that ^^^^ (which has two mistakes).

Yeah that was the original problem, some of the dialogue had fullstops after speech marks. But it was still rejected after I corrected them all.

As for knowing basic grammar, I do, I am educated. Writing has never been my passion as such, I just got into doing it recently as I thought I'd try my hand at writing a story. As Ive been a lurker for a long time and I thought I'd try and give something back.

Someone recommended I use grammarly as an extra aid for checks.

But hey Ho, ill get it published eventually. Once I finished the 2nd/final part done, I'll publish the whole thing here or elsewhere.

 

[gunhilltrain]

You don’t know that Lit is acting paranoid.

None of us know anything about what goes on behind the scenes at Lit. I was going to suggest that once a new technology becomes successful, it quickly becomes almost universally used and supplants whatever the previous technology was. At the beginning there will be doubts about it and then it sweeps aside any objections to it.

https://www.lookandlearn.com/histor...irst-motor-cars-the-man-with-the-red-flag.jpg

"Once a technology has been invented, it can't be uninvented."

 

[Djmac1031]

I don't mean to sound snobbish, and this isn't directed specifically at you, but whatever happened to knowing at least basic grammar and spelling? They're the tools of the trade for a writer, like pruning shears and potting soil are for a gardener or paints and brushes are for a painter.

People go on about wanting to become better writers, but somehow this doesn't seem to extend to the nitty-gritty of understanding how words and sentences and paragraphs work. They spend days researching some minute aspect of 1950s fashion or train timetables, but it's too much trouble to learn punctuation.

And then they get bent out of shape because they've relied on a machine to do these basics for them and their story gets flagged as AI. Just learn a handful of rules, and save yourself a lot of trouble and heartache, and in the long run probably a lot of time too.

it reminds me of a story I heard recently about a woman who trained to climb Mt Everest by, among other things, walking up her apartment steps every day carrying weights for several months.

She died on the mountain, of course.

Moral of the story: If you want to do something, learn how to do it right, or don't do it.

 

[gunhilltrain]

This.

The scary thing is that the "technology" to be replaced is us - the human brain. Ir's new to us, but the next generations will have grown up with it and find it normal.

https://www.change-climate.com/Poli...hnologies-inventions-reactive-legislation.jpg

 

[AwkwardMD]

None of us know anything about what goes on behind the scenes at Lit. I was going to suggest that once a new technology becomes successful, it quickly becomes almost universally used and supplants whatever the previous technology was. At the beginning there will be doubts about it and then it sweeps aside any objections to it.

https://www.lookandlearn.com/histor...irst-motor-cars-the-man-with-the-red-flag.jpg

"Once a technology has been invented, it can't be uninvented."

This is biased thinking. Tons of technology gets introduced and doesn't get adopted widespread, like Betamax video tapes. The car replaced the horse, fine. The dirigible did not replace the plane.

Don't be part of the problem, assuming it is inevitable.

 

[gunhilltrain]

This is biased thinking. Tons of technology gets introduced and doesn't get adopted widespread, like Betamax video tapes. The car replaced the horse, fine. The dirigible did not replace the plane.

Don't be part of the problem, assuming it is inevitable.

A lot of technology is rejected because it doesn't work as intended (dirigibles are now limited to a few blimps) or, like Betamax, is replaced by something else. Cars didn't replace horses as much as they replaced streetcars and passenger trains. American policy has been to spend billions in the last sixty years is to "get people out of their cars" but that has failed.

I would never submit something written in AI. But my assumptions have no impact. Whatever happens with, say, writing in the future will not likely to be affected by me.

Autos and trolleys

 

[kiwibat]

I guess I understand why Lit rejects AI, but they get a bit paranoid about it. (We just had a thread on paranoia.) I suspect that they are fighting a losing battle in the long run.

it’s a tricky situation because realistically AI detectors just aren’t very reliable . I’ve done some experimenting with them and it’s told me stuff I wrote 5 min ago was AI. parts of the bible or the US constitution get flagged as AI.

I’m sure it catches a lot of the low effort trash, which is good, but it’ll also have a ridiculous amount of false positives and ultimately creates a system that punishes people for writing well.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I’m sure it catches a lot of the low effort trash, which is good, but it’ll also have a ridiculous amount of false positives and ultimately creates a system that punishes people for writing well.

More likely identifies people who are writing bland.