AwkwardMD AI Rejection Help Desk

[Swedish_man]

Welcome to the AwkwardMD AI Rejection Help Desk. If you’ve had a story rejected citing AI assistance and were told to seek out a volunteer editor, I might be able to help.

I believe that I have some understanding of how the AI detector works. I reached this theory just over a year ago, but I wasn’t confident enough in my understanding to say anything except to a few individuals in private. Over time, more authors came through talking about their rejections, and my initial theory continued to hold water. In addition to that, I have recently helped a few authors work through their rejections (not around, through).

Please do not fill up this thread with commentary on AI.

The purpose of this thread is not to help AI-assisted writing be published on Literotica, but to help authors who did not understand that what they were doing violated the rules. In other words, if you don’t know why your story was rejected, I can’t help you.

I will not be discussing how the AI detector works, and I reserve the right to stop helping anyone at any time. Please reach out to me via this thread before PMing me.

Welcome to the AwkwardMD AI Rejection Help Desk. If you’ve had a story rejected citing AI assistance and were told to seek out a volunteer editor, I might be able to help.

I believe that I have some understanding of how the AI detector works. I reached this theory just over a year ago, but I wasn’t confident enough in my understanding to say anything except to a few individuals in private. Over time, more authors came through talking about their rejections, and my initial theory continued to hold water. In addition to that, I have recently helped a few authors work through their rejections (not around, through).

Please do not fill up this thread with commentary on AI.

The purpose of this thread is not to help AI-assisted writing be published on Literotica, but to help authors who did not understand that what they were doing violated the rules. In other words, if you don’t know why your story was rejected, I can’t help you.

I will not be discussing how the AI detector works, and I reserve the right to stop helping anyone at any time. Please reach out to me via this thread before PMing me.

I just uploaded my first story. I had a AI write it, I stated was based on a true story written by AI.
They will reject it because of that?

 

[AwkwardMD]

I just uploaded my first story. I had a AI write it, I stated was based on a true story written by AI.
They will reject it because of that?

Yes.

 

[Swedish_man]

Yes.

That sort of blows for us that isn't native English speakers. It's easier to write in your native tongue and then have the AI to translate. Oh well

 

[AwkwardMD]

That sort of blows for us that isn't native English speakers. It's easier to write in your native tongue and then have the AI to translate. Oh well

It is very unfortunate, yes. The most effective system right now is to write in English and enlist an editor to help you

 

[leviboy]

A story of mine was rejected because of AI. I wrote it in German as a Word document and I didn‘t use any AI in the process. But out of curiosity I let Deepl translate parts of it into English. Is it possible that this „contaminated“ the original German version so that it was rejected because of AI? Any help is much appreciated!

 

[AwkwardMD]

A story of mine was rejected because of AI. I wrote it in German as a Word document and I didn‘t use any AI in the process. But out of curiosity I let Deepl translate parts of it into English. Is it possible that this „contaminated“ the original German version so that it was rejected because of AI? Any help is much appreciated!

Potentially, yes

 

[leviboy]

Sad news, and disappointing, of course, since I put so much work and love into that story but thank you for your answer, anyway.

 

[Damfino88]

PM me. I might not be able to do anything for you, but I can try. Some AI use (by which I mean generative LLMs) can stain a story in a way that never really comes out.

Ok I sent you a “conversation” here on the forum.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I just uploaded my first story. I had a AI write it, I stated was based on a true story written by AI.
They will reject it because of that?

Double whammy, no AI, no "true" stories either.

I'm afraid that's going to get knocked back - both are prohibited by Lit's policies. You should check out the FAQs, they cover what's allowed on Literotica.

 

[Sedai]

Given the fact that I wrote and had an editor proofread my story, it was rejected for AI usage. I'm not sure what could have set off the flag. I need assistance understanding the problem, properly editing the story and preventing future AI rejections of this kind.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Ok. How might I do that? I typically write in Google docs, and then copy/paste into word so that I can submit as a .docx

I used to write in word...but I sometimes have to write on the go, so I find it easier to do it on Google now, as it makes it easier to access from both my desktop (my preferred place to write) as well as my laptop (when I'm on the go)

If you copy and paste text into a MS Word document, the metadata embedded in the document will indicate that, and this might be what triggers the suspect AI flag. Changes to, or created text, by a source other than the author are also tracked in the metadata.

I always submit by uploading a *.docx file, but my document is written entirely in the application itself. If a story is rejected for any reason, the embedded metadata could be a valuable tool in identifying the cause within the document and establishing its authenticity. There are several good articles on the Internet on how to read the metadata within a MS Word document.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Some scoffed at my claim that most AI detection analyzers return what they view is the percentage of the submitted work that is suspected of being of AI origin.

For those who have had parts of their story accepted but other parts rejected for suspected AI, consider that 50% suspected AI in a story of 10K words would only be 10% in a story of 50K words. Does it make sense to combine your pieces to submit a larger work for analysis?

Here is some feedback that I received via e-mail yesterday:

"Hi,

You provided a comment to my posting about my chapter revisions being rejected for AI after a few months pending. You suggested it was due to the length of chapters throwing the percentage off, so I had the site delete the chapters, combined them alltogether (21 lit pages) and resubmitted. It was published the very next night after submitting.

Thanks so much for your suggestion. You were spot on and it was the perfect solution in my case.

MrC"

We don't know what percentage threshold the AI detection process here uses. This is not a way to get AI-generated stories published. If every part of your story returns a high percentage of suspected AI, the combined pieces will likely return the same result. However, if your individual pieces are hit-and-miss, combining them might be something that would work for you.

Good luck.

 

[AwkwardMD]

If you copy and paste text into a MS Word document, the metadata embedded in the document will indicate that, and this might be what triggers the suspect AI flag.

I always submit by uploading a *.docx file, but my document is written entirely in the application itself.

You are responding to posts from June of 2025, to a user who has already gotten their work posted.

Furthermore, and this is important, this is not the thread for theorizing about how to defeat Lit's AI Detector. Please stop guessing in publicly-viewable threads. The detector is preventing content Literotica does not want to publish from being published, and you guessing about the tools or steps or voodoo they need to bypass that is unhelpful.

If you have theories you want to test, do your own research.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Given the fact that I wrote and had an editor proofread my story, it was rejected for AI usage. I'm not sure what could have set off the flag. I need assistance understanding the problem, properly editing the story and preventing future AI rejections of this kind.

You have no previously published works on Literotica. Were you previously posting on another site?

 

[BobbyBrandt]

You are responding to posts from June of 2025, to a user who has already gotten their work posted.

Furthermore, and this is important, this is not the thread for theorizing about how to defeat Lit's AI Detector. Please stop guessing in publicly-viewable threads. The detector is preventing content Literotica does not want to publish from being published, and you guessing about the tools or steps or voodoo they need to bypass that is unhelpful.

If you have theories you want to test, do your own research.

Your state purpose for this thread included:

to help authors who did not understand that what they were doing violated the rules

While you might scoff at it, a person's ability to review and analyze the metadata within their document for potential flags (such as cut and pasted text, text generated from another source other than the author, etc,) could provide greater insight for them than they would get from a VE.

I edited my comment to make its intention clearer.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Your state purpose for this thread included:

What do you think that means in the context of my entire opening post?

EDIT: That's rhetorical. What I meant was people who knowingly used an LLM for something not realizing that is not allowed. "I don't know what happened I didn't do anything" is different, and not the problem I choose to spend time addressing.

While you might scoff at it, a person's ability to review and analyze the metadata within their document for potential flags (such as cut and pasted text, text generated from another source other than the author, etc,) could provide greater insight for them than they would get from a VE.

I edited my comment to make its intention clearer.

I do not know why you think your ideas are so radical, and that everyone is scoffing at you. Of course metadata is useful. Get over yourself.

 

[Sedai]

You have no previously published works on Literotica. Were you previously posting on another site?

No, I haven't previously uploaded anywhere. This is my first time sharing my writing publicly and seeing how it goes for here.

 

[AwkwardMD]

No, I haven't previously uploaded anywhere. This is my first time sharing my writing publicly and seeing how it goes for here.

The first step for a rejection of any kind is to resubmit with a note. Make no changes. On the submission form there is a section labeled Notes to the Admin. Write something along the lines of "No generative AI was used in the creation of this story." This will trigger a manual review of your work.

 

[Sedai]

The first step for a rejection of any kind is to resubmit with a note. Make no changes. On the submission form there is a section labeled Notes to the Admin. Write something along the lines of "No generative AI was used in the creation of this story." This will trigger a manual review of your work.

I'll add that note to the admin section and resubmit exactly as it is. Thank you so much for the advice, I truly appreciate your help with the whole thing.

 

[AwkwardMD]

I'll add that note to the admin section and resubmit exactly as it is. Thank you so much for the advice, I truly appreciate your help with the whole thing.

Good luck and please report back.

 

[Sedai]

Good luck and please report back.

Uhmm it got sent back again for the same reason. Anything else I can do?

 

[AwkwardMD]

Uhmm it got sent back again for the same reason. Anything else I can do?

What kind of editor did you have?

 

[Sedai]

What kind of editor did you have?

The editor's bio says 'proofreader and editor'

 

[AwkwardMD]

The editor's bio says 'proofreader and editor'

Can you have your editor PM me?

 

[Sedai]

Can you have your editor PM me?

Okay I will write to him.