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[ChloeTzang]

It might have something to do with the number of posts that I have, which is quite low. Don’t sweat it. Thanks anyway!

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[AwkwardlySet]

I thought I should share that my story is due to be published tomorrow, after 15 days of total pending time.

I first submitted the story on 25th, and after many authors reported their stories going through within hours, I resubmitted on 31st. After 9 days pending, it finally due to be published tomorrow.

I can't deduce anything about what would've happened had I not resubmitted after 6 days, but it seems clear that my story didn't get caught by the glitch the second time. The queue, for me at least, was 9 days long.

It seems obvious that whitelists exist and they are the ones that allow certain authors to breeze through pending within a few days or even hours.

I hope everyone else keeps reporting their experiences. We need data if we're ever to figure out anything.

 

[millamomud]

I thought I should share that my story is due to be published tomorrow, after 15 days of total pending time.

I first submitted the story on 25th, and after many authors reported their stories going through within hours, I resubmitted on 31st. After 9 days pending, it finally due to be published tomorrow.

I can't deduce anything about what would've happened had I not resubmitted after 6 days, but it seems clear that my story didn't get caught by the glitch the second time. The queue, for me at least, was 9 days long.

It seems obvious that whitelists exist and they are the ones that allow certain authors to breeze through pending within a few days or even hours.

I hope everyone else keeps reporting their experiences. We need data if we're ever to figure out anything.

Unfortunately, my last two submissions were flagged for alleged use of AI after about three to five days. The impression in the german forum is that the detector has been cranked up to eleven, flagging almost everything.
I’m not sure, but it seems plausible to me that these publishing delays might be linked to Literotica’s automated detection processes.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Unfortunately, my last two submissions were flagged for alleged use of AI after about three to five days. The impression in the german forum is that the detector has been cranked up to eleven, flagging almost everything.
I’m not sure, but it seems plausible to me that these publishing delays might be linked to Literotica’s automated detection processes.

So it took 3-5 days between submission and the rejection on the basis of alleged AI use? Those weren't resubmissions?

That means that, unlike the stories of many other authors that suffered a long wait and were only then rejected for AI, your story was processed much faster. If there are any patterns here, it's sure hard to figure them out.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

Unfortunately, my last two submissions were flagged for alleged use of AI after about three to five days. The impression in the german forum is that the detector has been cranked up to eleven, flagging almost everything.
I’m not sure, but it seems plausible to me that these publishing delays might be linked to Literotica’s automated detection processes.

My last two chapters for the Marcus Higue series were flagged within two days of being submitted as AI written. Eighteen previous chapters written, submitted and published without an issue then all of a sudden … bam!

My Halloween story was rejected as a AI written story. I replied sending a PM, and another direct message without any reply at all. I have since resubmitted the two remaining chapter for publishing … the clock just ticks away and readers suffer.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

I thought I should share that my story is due to be published tomorrow, after 15 days of total pending time.

I first submitted the story on 25th, and after many authors reported their stories going through within hours, I resubmitted on 31st. After 9 days pending, it finally due to be published tomorrow.

I can't deduce anything about what would've happened had I not resubmitted after 6 days, but it seems clear that my story didn't get caught by the glitch the second time. The queue, for me at least, was 9 days long.

It seems obvious that whitelists exist and they are the ones that allow certain authors to breeze through pending within a few days or even hours.

I hope everyone else keeps reporting their experiences. We need data if we're ever to figure out anything.

Agree data is needed but there is silence from the Lit team after numerous request and them being tagged in this thread as well.

We can’t get data from unresponsive Site Moderators

 

[DEFCOM5]

My Halloween story was rejected as a AI written story.

I thought you were one the winners of the contest?

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

I thought you were one the winners of the contest?

I was but the story was rewritten and resubmitted …. Truthfully thirty words changed at most. Then resubmitted.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Agree data is needed but there is silence from the Lit team after numerous request and them being tagged in this thread as well.

We can’t get data from unresponsive Site Moderators

Oh, it's very much clear that we won't be getting any help from the website administration.

What I meant was that we, authors, should provide as much data as we can here, so we can maybe figure out why all those extreme cases of pending happen. The site clearly doesn't treat all submissions equally. Figuring out why those extreme cases happen would help us avoid them.

 

[Aoife_from_Ulster]

I do offer this, when the Lit contests and the Author challenges are set to publish, there is a delay if your story isn’t part of that event. Which I understand as thos have priority ss some of the timelines to publish and have the stories read are tight.

So I can understand but seeing some folks outside of these contests wait three weeks or more

Frustrating

 

[DjadoTorbalan]

Two of my stories were also flagged for AI. English is not my native language and i translate my works from Bulgarian. That, even i can see it, gives the impressiin that it doesn't always sound proper. I am linking the original texts into the admin message box, but still they are returned asAI.

 

[millamomud]

So it took 3-5 days between submission and the rejection on the basis of alleged AI use? Those weren't resubmissions?

That means that, unlike the stories of many other authors that suffered a long wait and were only then rejected for AI, your story was processed much faster. If there are any patterns here, it's sure hard to figure them out.

Yes, for me the pending pandemonium ended somewhere in the beginning of october, with story releases on october 2nd, 5th, 9th and 13th, til around 15-20th I was hit with rejections for parts 5/5 and 9/9 my stories.

 

[millamomud]

My last two chapters for the Marcus Higue series were flagged within two days of being submitted as AI written. Eighteen previous chapters written, submitted and published without an issue then all of a sudden … bam!

My Halloween story was rejected as a AI written story. I replied sending a PM, and another direct message without any reply at all. I have since resubmitted the two remaining chapter for publishing … the clock just ticks away and readers suffer.

Yes, some authors in Germany are saying the same thing, with new chapters from long-running series, which have been going for years! Suddenly being affected.

I was able to release one of my two rejected pieces by rewriting it and rearranging some sentences, but it took me around four hours for 1,000 words, and it was a pure gamble.


Another (original) story I have been writing during the pending-weeks has also been rejected within days and since been released elsewhere. I won't bother trying to adapt it.
Edit: I tried to release that one by providing the Word document outlining the progress, but alas, I don't think anyone even read my comment in the admin box

 

[cw5523729]

Has anyone considered the possibility that the delays are outside of Laurel's control? Perhaps the server bandwidth is being hogged for bitcoin mining.

Or maybe Elon Musk purchased Lit privately and is making changes to the back-office goings on resulting in glitches. He knows a good deal when he sees one and buying up the lit.com domain with it has to make it a good purchase.

 

[iwatchus]

Has anyone considered the possibility that the delays are outside of Laurel's control? Perhaps the server bandwidth is being hogged for bitcoin mining.

Or maybe Elon Musk purchased Lit privately and is making changes to the back-office goings on resulting in glitches. He knows a good deal when he sees one and buying up the lit.com domain with it has to make it a good purchase.

In terms of raw data, lit is tiny because text is small. All of the text stories published a day is probably less than 10MB (guessing mean story length is like 8K words, so 40KB of text). With the handful of audio stories they get, that may still be the bulk of the data. Compared to media, text is tiny.

The vast majority of stories sail through, so I think the basic pipeline works. It sure seems like some stories need extra effort and that effort is no longer as readily available in the quantities needed.

Even with their horrific communications, I actually think Laurel and Manu would tell us if they sold the site.

 

[onehitwanda]

Even with their horrific communications, I actually think Laurel and Manu would tell us if they sold the site.

Unless part of the terms were a NDA.

 

[cw5523729]

Even with their horrific communications, I actually think Laurel and Manu would tell us if they sold the site.

Would they though?

 

[EmilyMiller]

My last two chapters for the Marcus Higue series were flagged within two days of being submitted as AI written. Eighteen previous chapters written, submitted and published without an issue then all of a sudden … bam!

My Halloween story was rejected as a AI written story. I replied sending a PM, and another direct message without any reply at all. I have since resubmitted the two remaining chapter for publishing … the clock just ticks away and readers suffer.

It’s truly bizarre that you get a recent comp winner accused of using AI. It feels like the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

It’s truly bizarre that you get a recent comp winner accused of using AI. It feels like the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

Yeah, totally bizarre to imagine a successful author would use AI and win prizes...


https://aibusiness.com/nlp/author-reveals-using-chatgpt-for-award-winning-novel

• Rie Kudan won Japan's highest literary award for her novel about futuristic Tokyo in which gen AI is everywhere.
• Kudan admits generative AI wrote 5% of it. Literary award groups in Japan are re-evaluating the terms of future submissions.
• Last year, a Chinese professor wrote an award-winning novel generated by AI, using 66 prompts and completed in three hours.

https://www.fastcompany.com/9134139...ublished-books-authors-respond-to-controversy

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Unless part of the terms were a NDA.

Which would be a standard practice for something like that.

 

[cw5523729]

I mean, Elon Musk built that flame thrower that he called not-a-flame-thrower. That's not a very catchy name. What if he wanted to rename it "The LITer" and really wanted the lit.com domain for it?

 

[Kelliezgirl]

I mean, Elon Musk built that flame thrower that he called not-a-flame-thrower. That's not a very catchy name. What if he wanted to rename it "The LITer" and really wanted the lit.com domain for it?

More likely to buy it and just data mine it like crazy. If it's your site then you can't get sued for training your AI on it, or at least it would make for a much more difficult case. You could always argue that you were doing it to make your search functions better... etc etc...

 

[onehitwanda]

I mean, Elon Musk built that flame thrower that he called not-a-flame-thrower. That's not a very catchy name. What if he wanted to rename it "The LITer" and really wanted the lit.com domain for it?

I can't imagine many things worse than Elon Musk and erotica conjoined.

 

[cw5523729]

More likely to buy it and just data mine it like crazy. If it's your site then you can't get sued for training your AI on it, or at least it would make for a much more difficult case. You could always argue that you were doing it to make your search functions better... etc etc...

I, for one, approve of Elon Musk training all the world's AIs to be better acquainted with porn. Heck, I'll even contribute to the effort. Does he have a gofundme?

 

[cw5523729]

I can't imagine many things worse than Elon Musk and erotica conjoined.

I dunno. Maybe your next Tesla will come preloaded with erotic audiobooks installed for your listening pleasure.