Anyone else getting their stories rejected because they think AI was used?

[PublishedEroticaWriter]

My last two stories were rejected because of 'AI.' Even though I didn't use any kinda of AI. If I did, I'm sure my grammar would be better. The first recent rejection was a copy of a story I had from another account. Since that account no longer works, I tried to add it to this one. I changed the title slightly to try to prevent it from being rejected. For all the good it did. Instead of getting a rejection saying this story already exists, it accused me of using AI in an auto-reply message.
The most recent auto-reply rejection today accused me of the same thing. Even though this story also used no AI and was corrected by my editor and written by me. I even had Grammarly check it for AI, and it found nothing. Not a single percent.
I think literotica is using a defective AI bot to check for AI-generated stories. Anyone who actually read my stories could see it wasn't written by AI. Al-generated stories are still a bit on the 'stupid' side. Like many things after the 'upgrade,' things no longer work right. Or at all.
Anyone else having this issue?

 

[TheWritingGroup]

You might want to look at the many threads already here and in the Authors Hangout about AI false positives.

The simplest and easiest thing is to resubmit the story, and in the admin note say that no, you don't use AI. That has worked for people.

 

[PublishedEroticaWriter]

Well, I checked tech support because it's a tech support issue. But yes, I already did all those things. Even sent a message to Manu. But if they are just letting a defective AI run things, it will just reject it again. It's like no one is at the wheel.

 

[Britva415]

if they are just letting a defective AI run things, it will just reject it again

Re-submit it and include a statement in the Notes field saying you didn't use AI and you got hit with a false positive, and asking for a human review.

 

[PublishedEroticaWriter]

I did that. But didn't say false positive. I said if a person read this instead of AI, they would know it wasn't AI-generated.

 

[loic333]

Unfortunately, this problem seems to be quite common, either when writing in a language other than English, or if you've used a grammar checker. False positives are then generated, and our stories can be rejected. For me, it took 15 days to convince the team to accept my 13 chapters. I was helped by someone on the site who listened to them and who attested to my integrity. So write directly to Laurel, use the help tab on your homepage, and follow up. I'm in the same situation again with my ongoing series, which will also have 15 chapters, so patience is key, and make your case! Good luck!

 

[PublishedEroticaWriter]

UPDATE: After sending every way I could think of to plead my case, my story was finally published. Thanks to Nymphaia's editing, beta reading, and numerous other improvements, it is now 1000% better. It can be found here: https://www.literotica.com/s/nymph-2-ch-04-bottoms-up

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[Es_Orik_]

Did you edit most of it? Facing similar issue

 

[PublishedEroticaWriter]

I'm not so great at editing. So I had my editor/beta reader go order it with a fine-tooth comb. She is an absolute professional. Read it and see.

 

[MiaDeschain]

Apropos of nothing: Our Heuristics to Spot AI-Generated Content are Useless

The article is coming at the problem from the standpoint of humans being able to spot AI-generated content; but since humans write "AI filters" such as the inept and worse-than-useless filter used on this site—as the article says, "Save yourself the trouble and just flip a coin."

 

[SmilingLez]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Band-Aid that Manu put on literotica's 27-year plus aging antiquated database/cms in order to fix (and I say that loosely) the forever in pending status bug that we had months ago, was to modify the code; so that if a story was in pending for more than x number of days, the system would spit out an AI rejection message, removing the story from the database and preventing another bottleneck.

 

[SmilingLez]

It's like no one is at the wheel.

BINGO

 

[SmilingLez]

For shits and giggles, I wrote three short paragraphs each with three sentences with different variations of the same theme. The AI detection tool determined my paragraphs were AI generated. So sad that Literotica depends on such flawed tools.

Bottom line, if Literotica rejects your story stating it was AI generated, take it with a grain of salt. After all, an AI detection tool determined that the Gettysburg Address was AI generated.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Two of those use the "rule of three", namely that lists made by AI tend to have three adjectives or three nouns.

Putting the three paragraphs together like that in one document makes it look nonhuman, because no human writer would put those three paragraphs one after the other (for any scenario but this one), that I can imagine.

 

[IWroteThis]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Band-Aid that Manu put on literotica's 27-year plus aging antiquated database/cms in order to fix (and I say that loosely) the forever in pending status bug that we had months ago, was to modify the code; so that if a story was in pending for more than x number of days, the system would spit out an AI rejection message, removing the story from the database and preventing another bottleneck.

Maybe it just hasn't been long enough, but the bug appears to still be alive and eating stories.

 

[SmilingLez]

Two of those use the "rule of three", namely that lists made by AI tend to have three adjectives or three nouns.

Putting the three paragraphs together like that in one document makes it look nonhuman, because no human writer would put those three paragraphs one after the other (for any scenario but this one), that I can imagine.

So are you saying anytime a human writes paragraphs using the rule of threes, several times in a story, it's going to be flagged as AI generated, even though it wasn't? If so, it proves my point, AI detection tools are flawed. If so, the majority of books written before 2000, 100% written by humans and categorized as fiction, fantasy, and/or humor would be flagged as AI generated.

Edit - my big issue with Literotica when it comes to rejecting a story because their flawed AI tools flagged it, is how people in this forum are so quick to assume that they actually used AI to write their story, when maybe they actually didn't use AI at all (aka a talented well versed writer)

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Oh, the detectors are absolutely flawed. That's one of their flaws, and hardly the only one.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Edit - my big issue with Literotica when it comes to rejecting a story because their flawed AI tools flagged it, is how people in this forum are so quick to assume that they actually used AI to write their story, when maybe they actually didn't use AI at all (aka a talented well versed writer)

Based on threads over the last year or so, I reckon it's about fifty/fifty. As many being caught who did eventually acknowledge using AI in one form or another (usually relying too much on Grammarly), as those genuinely coming unstuck, who didn't. ESL writers cop it hard, unfortunately, trying to get unfamiliar English past the keeper.

I'm not sure what the alternative is - I imagine the site gets deluged with AI slop nowadays, that was never an issue before.

 

[SmilingLez]

Based on threads over the last year or so, I reckon it's about fifty/fifty. As many being caught who did eventually acknowledge using AI in one form or another (usually relying too much on Grammarly), as those genuinely coming unstuck, who didn't. ESL writers cop it hard, unfortunately, trying to get unfamiliar English past the keeper.

I'm not sure what the alternative is - I imagine the site gets deluged with AI slop nowadays, that was never an issue before.

Unfortunately there is no alternative, it would take many dozens of literate people to review all of the stories submitted to Literotica everyday.

My point - if someone posts that their story was rejected because of AI and they say they didn't use it, there are certain people who will attack them (with words) in the Forum accusing them of using AI tools when in actuality they did not use AI or tell them to contact a volunteer editor who probably knows less than the person who wrote the story, and we mustn't forget those people who still think Laurel reviews every story submitted.

Today I am playing with fused sentences