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".

 

[Thanatos_X13]

@MelissaJewels Sorry this has happened to you. As you can see from others, there's really nothing any of us can do to help you. The process is opaque and inconsistent and frustrating. I had a piece rejected for AI and managed to edit my work and get it through after several attempts. I cannot guarantee you that anything I did will solve it for you, but I documented my process in the 1st post of this thread: https://forum.literotica.com/threads/another-ai-rejection-post-5-30-update.1609076/ Also, HeyAll posted a link to this Twitter image of a Reddit post with some insights from a college professor you may find useful, though limited: https://t.co/jFlaM9AyOd

Hope something in there helps. Whatever you choose to do, good luck.

 

[DrPope]

Or, alternately, the number of writers who wanted to publish here was always relatively small, and the AI "detection" discouraged new writers wanting to come onboard. I tested some of my early stuff against several detectors, and they flagged huge chunks of it. If I'd first tried to publish here after the AI detection stuff rolled out and got told "you didn't write this?" I probably wouldn't have bothered to revise and try to get it through, at least not more than once.

Once the folks who've been grandfathered in are gone, I wonder how many new writers the site will see, and all because of a technology even the heavy hitters in the space have given up on?

Gosh you have changed your views .... you used to be an apologist for them ...

 

[NoTalentHack]

Gosh you have changed your views .... you used to be an apologist for them ...

I’ve never been an apologist. I’ve just also never suffered from paranoid delusions. Some false positives != all false positives, and some false positives also != a conspiracy to hide censorship.

 

[DrPope]

I’ve never been an apologist. I’ve just also never suffered from paranoid delusions. Some false positives != all false positives, and some false positives also != a conspiracy to hide censorship.

I don't believe either is true but I do believe that they are driving away new (or even established authors in a couple of cases) and that they are contemptible for failing to publicly address and document all processes around the issue whilst happily pocketing advertising $ off authors work.

 

[ragal2]

I had a similar issue. Stories got rejected because of AI. My suggestion is practical: Make sure to leave at least 10 errors/mistakes and Literotica's AI tracking software will approve it.
Personally. I agree that as long as the story is original and created by a human being, using any software to improve the writing is a good thing, but if the management prefers otherwise, just do it...

 

[MelissaJewels]

But my next batch of stories are just stuck in pending folder. It has been more than a month and still nothing. It is taking way too long.

I had a similar issue. Stories got rejected because of AI. My suggestion is practical: Make sure to leave at least 10 errors/mistakes and Literotica's AI tracking software will approve it.
Personally. I agree that as long as the story is original and created by a human being, using any software to improve the writing is a good thing, but if the management prefers otherwise, just do it...

 

[Andreas_Kreuz]

Chapter 12 of your story has been published on 19 Jan 25. I presume this is the chapter you have been talking about. Would you mind telling us, how you got it published?

 

[Andreas_Kreuz]

It is at https://www.literotica.com/s/pieces-of-us
I had a quick look at the first paragraph and it contains phrases I have found to be typical of AI prose.

• bed that dominates the space,
• air buzzes with anticipation
• questions swirling in my mind
• letting it fall to the floor with a soft whisper of fabric.

Maybe you wrote this, but then you are writing like AI. Its purple prose:
Air is air, it does not buzz, neither does anticipation.
Whatever it is, if its in a mind AI always lets it swirl.
I have never had a fabric whisper anything.

 

[Andreas_Kreuz]

I posted the first few paragraphs to gpt and asked if they were AI generated :
Answer:
Here’s why it might be AI-generated:

Clean but generic prose: The descriptions are functional, somewhat cinematic, but lack a personal stylistic fingerprint.

Structure: It moves from scene-setting to internal reaction in a very methodical, almost template-like way.

Pacing: The line “This is it, I thought…” followed by the realization moment feels like a classic narrative beat, often used in AI outputs to simulate tension.

Language cues: Words like “surprisingly spacious,” “cozy lamp,” “luxurious-looking” are common in AI-generated room descriptions.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Chapter 12 of your story has been published on 19 Jan 25. I presume this is the chapter you have been talking about. Would you mind telling us, how you got it published?

Don't be a necromancer. This thread had been dead for months. Let it sleep.

 

[OralAllOver]

Have a woman character be kind: nothing vindictive or petty

No way AI could have learned that from other examples!

 

[Andreas_Kreuz]

I find it enlightening to be able look at a story that struggled with AI rejection. In this case it confirms that literoticas scanner does have some merits.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Let sleeping threads lie.

Don't be a necromancer. This thread had been dead for months. Let it sleep.

 

[alohadave]

Let sleeping threads lie.

What is dead cannot die.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Umm, what is undead cannot live but does!

What is dead cannot die.

 

[StillStunned]

What is dead cannot die.

What is dead can clearly die, otherwise it wouldn't be dead.