Ai A New Era

For better or worse, my submission is in! How is everyone else doing?

Mine posted a few days back.

I just noticed that of the five stories posted so far, every one is in a different category: TG/CD, EC, Novels/Novellas, SF/F, and Romance. Nice to see people taking it in so many directions!
 
Mine posted a few days back.

I just noticed that of the five stories posted so far, every one is in a different category: TG/CD, EC, Novels/Novellas, SF/F, and Romance. Nice to see people taking it in so many directions!

I am leaning towards "toys and masturbation" for mine, which I'm still hoping to finish by the deadline. But I am not sure yet...
 
Mine posted a few days back.

I just noticed that of the five stories posted so far, every one is in a different category: TG/CD, EC, Novels/Novellas, SF/F, and Romance. Nice to see people taking it in so many directions!

Haven’t decided if NonHuman or SF&F will be best… still doing the finishing touches. Sigh. Much slower than planned.
 
ANNOUNCEMENT: **assuming it's okay**, I'm planning to do another submission that lists previous AI stories that are already published. I'm going to go through the various threads and conversations, but if you've got something you want to add, please post here in this thread or send me a message/email!

@Bramblethorn
Thank you for pointing that out!

@JuanaSalsa
*fingers crossed*

@PennameWombat
Yeah, I finally went hard-core sci-fi to skip over dealing w/ physics

@MoonlitOpal
Looking forward to reading it!
 
Just submitted my story! Thanks for this topic bettiezyx, I really enjoyed writing it.
 
@juanasalsa Here's instructions for how to edit--add a note that it really belongs in the toys category.

12-20-2016, 01:52 PM #2
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Copied and pasted from a Rejectreality post in another thread.

Here's the editing method for Lit.

Take note of the url of your story/chapter. That's the address appearing in the address bar of your browser when you view the first page of your story. You really only need the last part after the /s/ that represents your title.
Start a new submission.
Use the same title as the original ( or as much as will fit ) plus something such as *EDIT*
Fill in the same category, then fill description and keywords with placeholders, as they don't matter. ( Unless one of these things are what you're editing )
If editing the story text, paste/upload the new text in the "story text" section. You need to upload the whole story, not just the edited sections. If editing anything else, copy the "notes" section detailed below in order to fill this section.
In the "notes" section, say what you are editing. If story text, then put that. If title, then put the requested NEW title here. You can fill in edited descriptions/keywords/category above, but you'll still want to list any such changes here. It's a good idea to list the url that I mentioned in step 1. This is unique to every story/chapter, and can help eliminate the potential for human error. As mentioned above, if you are editing something other than the story text, copy what you put in the notes section to the "story text" as well. This is simply because there must be something in that section for you to submit.
Click "Review", then "Submit"


Edits are subject to the same wait time as a new story. Laurel has said that edit requests have low priority, but I have also seen edits go up in bulk in far less time than a story usually requires to post, though. So, it could be shorter, or it could be longer than the normal wait for a story to post.

Edits will not appear on the public side immediately. Wait at least 24 hours after the "edited" submission vanishes from your private author list before worrying that your changes haven't been applied. Changes may not all appear at the same time, either. Page 1 may change, while page 2 will remain the same until an hour or so later. Be patient as the system catches up.

If you edit the story in this manner ( as opposed to deleting and re-submitting ) you'll retain your votes, views, comments, etc. The only thing that will be changed is what you say that you want changed. It will not appear on the New List again.

If you wish to delete a story, use much the same method, except put something such as *DELETE* in the title, and say that you want to delete the story in question in the "notes" section.

If you wish to delete all of your stories, an entire series, etc., then use the normal delete process, but explain in the "notes" section that you want to do a mass delete, and what type.

Convoluted, but it does work. It gets a little easier as you get used to it.
 
I put my story in toys and masturbation but it looks like it's been moved into illustrated. I hope that illustrated readers don't mind that there's only one image in a 13k word story.

You could just send a pm to Laurel asking her to change the category. Alternatively, or if she won’t change it, have it deleted. Then remove the illustration and resubmit it to T&M.
 
I put my story in toys and masturbation but it looks like it's been moved into illustrated. I hope that illustrated readers don't mind that there's only one image in a 13k word story.

I’ve looked through the underlying HTML for stories and there are some specifics for any inline illustration. I’ve seen mention on here that those need to be manually processed. In which case, if there’s even a single included illustration, picture, etc., it’ll probably go there.

I’ve not read there extensively, but some seemed to have very few pictures. Can’t say only one, but close to.

If my supposition is correct, to move it you may need to lose the illustration. Your choice.
 
I’ve looked through the underlying HTML for stories and there are some specifics for any inline illustration. I’ve seen mention on here that those need to be manually processed. In which case, if there’s even a single included illustration, picture, etc., it’ll probably go there.

I’ve not read there extensively, but some seemed to have very few pictures. Can’t say only one, but close to.

If my supposition is correct, to move it you may need to lose the illustration. Your choice.

You could just send a pm to Laurel asking her to change the category. Alternatively, or if she won’t change it, have it deleted. Then remove the illustration and resubmit it to T&M.

Since the category was changed to illustration but the story was still "pending," I edited the story with a note to the editor indicating that I think the story belongs in toys/masturbation and that I could remove the image if was causing an issue. This would require a small rewrite and would be kind of sad because it was an AI generated image, which I liked for the theme.

Anyway, I made that note on 10/20, and there has been nothing that's happened with it since then. I am sure that the editor, Laurel?, is busy. We do have two weeks left to the event deadline so it should be resolved in some way by then. I don't want to cause a lot of trouble so I will just go with whatever she decides to do at this point.
 
So I got a note back this morning that the AI generated image can't be posted because I did not create it. I removed the image and edited the story so it works without, then re-submitted to toys and masturbation.

I find this a fascinating issue of image rights and usage that is sure to be continually evolving as AI image generation programs are freely available everywhere.

How much does the AI programmer(s) own the image and how much does the image curator who sorted through (in this case probably 50-60 AI generated images) to find just the right one, own it?

Anyway, I'm just enjoying this new twist on AI content and thought I'd share. It's too bad that I can't share the final AI generated face I selected, I could have just pretended that it had generated the one I liked instead of going through lots of refreshes on thispersondoesnotexist.com, lol. But, well that was fascinating anyway, to see where the program did well and where it had issues. Ears seem to a challenge for it.
 
Wow! You really landed on an issue. Of course Lit doesn't have the resources to tackle it, but that's amazing. I heard about that website in this one article that was creepy a.f.

Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier https://reut.rs/3h0e60b
 
Wow! You really landed on an issue. Of course Lit doesn't have the resources to tackle it, but that's amazing. I heard about that website in this one article that was creepy a.f.

Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier https://reut.rs/3h0e60b

Interesting article. As these things get more popular, the line between fact and fantasy will blur even more than it is already with how many people don't trust the news. Who will be the keepers and arbiters of truth if people don't even trust what is written in by a reporter? And, especially, if news agencies re-publish articles from unvetted sites like Quora without even substantiating the existence of the author.

A new frontier indeed.
 
Right? Saw this one article “Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking" & blew it off as stupid. Then later discovered it was AI bravo sierra. And here's the story:

"The trick to generating content without the need for much editing was understanding GPT-3’s strengths and weaknesses. “It's quite good at making pretty language, and it's not very good at being logical and rational,” says Porr. So he picked a popular blog category that doesn’t require rigorous logic: productivity and self-help."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/14/1006780/ai-gpt-3-fake-blog-reached-top-of-hacker-news/
 
Right? Saw this one article “Feeling unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking" & blew it off as stupid. Then later discovered it was AI bravo sierra. And here's the story:

"The trick to generating content without the need for much editing was understanding GPT-3’s strengths and weaknesses. “It's quite good at making pretty language, and it's not very good at being logical and rational,” says Porr. So he picked a popular blog category that doesn’t require rigorous logic: productivity and self-help."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/14/1006780/ai-gpt-3-fake-blog-reached-top-of-hacker-news/

I love it. Finally a practical use for GPT-3!
 
Congratulations!

So I got a note back this morning that the AI generated image can't be posted because I did not create it. I removed the image and edited the story so it works without, then re-submitted to toys and masturbation.

I find this a fascinating issue of image rights and usage that is sure to be continually evolving as AI image generation programs are freely available everywhere.

How much does the AI programmer(s) own the image and how much does the image curator who sorted through (in this case probably 50-60 AI generated images) to find just the right one, own it?

Anyway, I'm just enjoying this new twist on AI content and thought I'd share. It's too bad that I can't share the final AI generated face I selected, I could have just pretended that it had generated the one I liked instead of going through lots of refreshes on thispersondoesnotexist.com, lol. But, well that was fascinating anyway, to see where the program did well and where it had issues. Ears seem to a challenge for it.


I'm interested in this. Is the AI image something GAN-generated? I've been using the term "GAN" for about a year now because of something a friend told me (agh!) and just for the first time got half an inkling of what it really is by reading Bramblethorn's excellent Loss Function.
 
I'm interested in this. Is the AI image something GAN-generated? I've been using the term "GAN" for about a year now because of something a friend told me (agh!) and just for the first time got half an inkling of what it really is by reading Bramblethorn's excellent Loss Function.

I wasn't sure, so I looked it up and, yes, thispersondoesnotexist.com uses an algorithm that's been trained via a GAN neural network. I found an article about the method:

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/...ple-portraits-thispersondoesnotexist-stylegan

Each face generated when you refresh the website is completely original and will never be generated again. I think it's pretty fascinating.
 
That's amazing.

I knew that GAN is part of the software used to create the covers for our books. I thought it was an art program, like Photoshop.
 
Running around secondlife, play with various AI codes. Have an AI robot somewhere in my luggage from one of the training classes they hold in Lagrange Spaceport. It kind of got away from me (gave it the wrong location to travel to), so I had to wait for it to be returned w/ the unclaimed prims. Been waiting for some free time to get back to tinkering.
 
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