Why so many recycled stories?

[Jodaily]

I recall reading that plagiarizing is the sincerest form of of flattery, but I suppose I’m just plagiarizing.

 

[alohadave]

Artificial Intelligence is just a massive plagiarism tool.

How do you reconcile using an AI generated avatar?

 

[LisaMayTurner]

How do you reconcile using an AI generated avatar?

I don't have to as it's not a story. Human beings writing stories need creative imaginations. Using an avatar that looks almost like me is not a story.

 

[Robin_Starveling]

1. First-class creative minds are unlikely to choose this platform to showcase their wares.

2. Positive feedback is the main incentive for most writers. The safest way to get it is to give readers what they already want. Recycling material that has proven popular is lazy but also risk-free. True originality may backfire.

 

[StillStunned]

1. First-class creative minds are unlikely to choose this platform to showcase their wares.

First-class creative minds choose this platform because it allows them to showcase their wares to a vast global audience, without wasting their time and energy on finding a publisher.

2. Positive feedback is the main incentive for most writers. The safest way to get it is to give readers what they already want. Recycling material that has proven popular is lazy but also risk-free. True originality may backfire.

True originality has a greater likelihood of being rewarded than constantly regurgitating the same trite stories, both in terms of positive feedback from readers and peers and in satisfaction for the writer.

 

[Nynah]

I don't have to as it's not a story. Human beings writing stories need creative imaginations. Using an avatar that looks almost like me is not a story.

It was created using art stolen from actual human artists, so it's still plagiarism and theft. Creativity and imagination is not constrained to telling stories. Visual artists have just as much right to not have their work stolen as writers do. GenAI takes things from all creatives, 99% of the time without their consent or knowledge and with no compensation.

 

[Robin_Starveling]

First-class creative minds choose this platform because it allows them to showcase their wares to a vast global audience, without wasting their time and energy on finding a publisher.

True originality has a greater likelihood of being rewarded than constantly regurgitating the same trite stories, both in terms of positive feedback from readers and peers and in satisfaction for the writer.

Obviously, a simpleton like myself wouldn’t realize he’d stumbled into a first-class genius’ shrine. But I do know that farting is a healthy way to release excess hot air.

 

[StillStunned]

But I do know that farting is a healthy way to release excess hot air.

No-one's stopping you.

 

[MissEmmEss]

I'm kind of guilty of this. I deleted my profile along with my stories, and I'm reuploading them (when they don't get rejected as AI written... )

 

[gunhilltrain]

There's a couple of easy spots to identify AI on Facebook now.

When you get a page pushed at you that you've never looked at before, usually connected with something you're interested in that the algorithm has decided you want to see, you can bet your ass it's AI. Wouldn't surprise me if Facebook itself is generating a lot of these to "create engagement".

It may look on the surface like a pukka enthusiast page but they always give themselves away, usually with what looks like a lengthy and erudite exposition on something that looks like it's been written by a committee of super-keen interns who've done basic research but don't actually know their subject very well. Often accompanied by an irrelevant or incorrect photo or two. I've seen instances where the person who actually took the photo has asked why the page is using it without permission or citation (they never EVER cite sources, another giveaway).

This so-called content is just stuff that's being scraped from genuine sites that people have put a lot of work into, either personal or e.g. Wikipedia, then repackaged badly in the name of "engagement".

The most egregious one I've seen was one with what looked like interesting posts on quirky historic engineering (specifically aero engines that were mostly technological dead ends). It'd post the short form article on Facebook with a couple of pics to hook you in, then invite you to read further with links that led to an ad-infested website. And all the content, photos and text was totally ripped off, verbatim, from a brilliant, deeply researched and ad-free site called Old Machine Press. I did actually request Facebook take that one down for plagiarism, but it's honestly like plugging a hole in the dam with a forefinger.

I don't remember much of what Facebook was like years ago. It seemed to be more of people promoting their own lives. I don't know where all of the present material comes from - some of it does have credits, I think. Whatever, enough of it is interesting anyway. The membership is definitely - older (like me!). At the beginning it was more appealing to younger people. Some of the comments are a bit of geezer griping. "Why did they have to demolish Penn Station?" Hey, that was over sixty years ago.

To promote myself regarding lingerie: Read my upcoming story My Year with Michelle, Ch. 04 in about ten days. It will be in the Romance category.

 

[gunhilltrain]

1. First-class creative minds are unlikely to choose this platform to showcase their wares.

2. Positive feedback is the main incentive for most writers. The safest way to get it is to give readers what they already want. Recycling material that has proven popular is lazy but also risk-free. True originality may backfire.

So what is a better platform for creative minds? Does that even include me? Do they take erotica? The Paris Review doesn't count!

https://www.theparisreview.org/about/submissions

https://www.theparisreview.org/about/prizes

So the late Norman Mailer won a Hadada Prize. Many years ago he wrote one the the worst erotic short stories I've ever seen, "The Time of Her Time." "The story depicts macho Irish Catholic bullfighting instructor Sergius O'Shaugnessy and his sexual conquest of a young, middle-class Jewish college girl." On Monroe Street in Manhattan, of all place. (Where does he keep the bulls?) For a while it was available online, but I don't think it is now.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I don't have to as it's not a story. Human beings writing stories need creative imaginations. Using an avatar that looks almost like me is not a story.

Stealing from other writers bad.

Stealing from other artists not bad?

 

[gunhilltrain]

Stealing from other writers bad.

Stealing from other artists not bad?

I think she means that she used AI to create a self-portrait.