Need Help with publishing my new story. My story got rejected citing AI usage.

[Britva415]

You know what I feel like I can’t help but notice?

Correlation does not imply causation, but I feel there’s a correlation between the recent (several months) drop in new authors bringing their frustrated reports of AI rejection to the forums, and the recent (several months) uplift in new authors bringing their frustrated reports of excessively long approval times to the forums.

 

[AlexBailey]

Could be, but, again, I doubt they even look before submitting stories.

Afterward?

What we used to see was, people getting rejected and coming to various different parts of the forum and starting new threads like they were the first ever.

So even when they do use the forum, they weren’t benefiting from existing conversations before, why would we presume they would now.

Hmm.

The implication was that there are fewer recent threads and posts about it. In order for someone to post on the forum, they would have to have come to the forum looking for information - at the very least signing in, finding the appropriate section, then posting any concerns.

I would think that many authors who came here to complain about AI rejections are very likely to find existing threads about it before they even create a forum account. No?

 

[Britva415]

Hmm.

The implication was that there are fewer recent threads and posts about it. In order for someone to post on the forum, they would have to have come to the forum looking for information - at the very least signing in, finding the appropriate section, then posting any concerns.

I would think that many authors who came here to complain about AI rejections are very likely to find existing threads about it before they even create a forum account. No?

Only if they think to look. I feel like we have evidence that many of them weren’t aware of the many other threads when they posted their own.

 

[Britva415]

I should make a point to say: I’m not unsympathetic to @MelissaJewels . Clearly this does still happen and it royally sucks for those it happens to. I’m sorry you’re one of them, or that it ever happens at all.

 

[AlexBailey]

Only if they think to look. I feel like we have evidence that many of them weren’t aware of the many other threads when they posted their own.

I’m surprised there isn’t a stickied thread about AI rejection in the AH.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

Trends can tell you something, though. There's a flurry of sudden activity (which is what happened here, with AI rejection threads arriving when there had been none), it peaks for a while then drops away. Something has happened in between. That's Systems 101, I'd have thought. What's happened? We can only speculate.

We've not seen the input (the number of stories submitted that might be AI assisted), but we have seen one of the outputs change over time (the number of threads opened by folk who have had stories rejected).

Unless you read every story published (the other output), you can't really gauge the effectivity or otherwise of anything the site might have done (the AI rejection process). At that point, you're trying to separate not very good writing from AI assisted not very good writing - because I think there's a consensus, that AI assisted fiction writing is not very good.

It comes down the style thing that always gets mentioned in these threads. "Oh no, you can't say, 'change your style,' you can never say that." As I've said before, three years ago, what gets said in these threads would have been considered "good writing advice", but now, apparently, it's not.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I just caught myself in a paradoxical contradiction and was interested to see if others found the asme to be true about themselves.

I've got a Tumblr feed that's now proliferating AI visual art junk. Crippled hands, distorted bodies, six fingers, so obviously artificial and fake. There's one person who is blatantly using Photoshop filters on stolen photos (I've recognised the originals), who has the audacity to put their name on it, claiming it's "art".