Posts flagged as AI written and rejected.

MadeupName01

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Hi, I flatter myself that I am an aspiring author on this site. However, my recent 4 submissions have all been rejected as ‘AI generated’ which isn’t correct. I have used Grammarly to correct my poor punctuation and the use of a ‘passive’ voice, but other than that, it really is all my own work.

My work makes use of the world created by OneAgainst with his permission.

The rejection reply says to rewrite it or use a proofreader’s services.

I have added the first part of my story to this post, which is no more than where it is from, and a very brief overview of where it all started. I have run the attached document through a couple of free AI checking tools both of which say it is not AI written.

Is there any other way of approaching this other than a rewrite and/or a third party to check it?

Before posting this I checked my returned posts all 4 were rejected however today one has been posted....I am more confused than ever.

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I have been a 'lurker' on this site for several years, and, to my shame, I have never had the courtesy to write and thank some of the authors whose stories I have enjoyed. This changed recently.

Why my epiphany?

I have been following a story by Oneagainst. The story described the lives of Bea, Lotte, and Hector (who, in the stories, is always referred to as Hec) as they navigated their relationship with Hec, who became more and more submissive. It was a great story and my sole reason for being here.

So when the author ended the story after some 30+ episodes, I was deeply unhappy. I was unhappy because, as the author had created such a rich tapestry of characters and plot threads, I couldn't understand why he chose to finish the story when he did.

I was so unhappy that I contacted the author to enquire why he ended the story. Put simply, the author wanted to work on other stories, and since the Bea, Lotte and Hec story had taken up so much of his time, he wanted to close it down and begin work on others.

Still unhappy, I wrote a brief outline on how the story could proceed into a 4th ‘season’ as it were. I submitted it to the author and asked permission to continue the story and play in the world he created. To my surprise, he permitted me to do so.

The following stories continue from the last episode of One Against's story. Whilst I have tried to make this continuation of a larger story as standalone as possible, it is much richer if people have read the original work from which it follows on.

A very brief summary of the back story.

Hector signed a slave contract with his wife, Lotte, to become her 24/7 submissive in Tell Me What You Want. Lotte added to Hector's humiliation by bringing Bea, her best friend, into the arrangement to train him, but it didn't go as she planned. In Total Female Control, Lotte tightened her hold on her slave husband with Bea's help. The final part of the story, Total Power Exchange, ends with Bea asking Hec to marry her, and he agrees. My work continues with the actual wedding and continues from there.

Even if you decide my continuation stories aren't worth reading, I recommend reading Oneagainst's works; they read well and are believable.
 
I have used Grammarly to correct my poor punctuation and the use of a ‘passive’ voice
I'm so sorry friend, but that is AI 😔

By allowing grammarly to rewrite your paragraphs, you've allowed a Large Language Model to use your original text as input to generate new output.

This may not "feel," like AI to you, and in terms of creativity it may be different from telling ChatGPT to write a story for you... But mechanically it is no different, and whatever technique Lit uses to filter out AI sees no difference.

If you can revert your story back to a version before you let Grammarly rewrite it for you, that would be the right move. There are volunteer editors and beta readers in the Editors' Forum here that can help you with writing voice, don't rely on AI tools to do it for you if you want to publish on Lit!
 
If you must rely upon a mindless, soulless statistical inference engine to check your work, then get Grammarly (or whatever) to review your work, but only ever make your own changes to the text. Do not allow Grammarly to change your text.

People use Grammarly to flag basic grammar / punctuation issues - then make a fix themselves, and get published fine.

Others let Grammarly change their text and get rejected.
 
People use Grammarly to flag basic grammar / punctuation issues - then make a fix themselves, and get published fine.

Others let Grammarly change their text and get rejected.
💯, I'm fairly convinced that about 95% of reports of being rejected for AI from writers who genuinely honestly don't believe they've used AI comes down to this exact situation.
 
Hi, I flatter myself that I am an aspiring author on this site. However, my recent 4 submissions have all been rejected as ‘AI generated’ which isn’t correct. I have used Grammarly to correct my poor punctuation and the use of a ‘passive’ voice, but other than that, it really is all my own work.

My work makes use of the world created by OneAgainst with his permission.

The rejection reply says to rewrite it or use a proofreader’s services.

I have added the first part of my story to this post, which is no more than where it is from, and a very brief overview of where it all started. I have run the attached document through a couple of free AI checking tools both of which say it is not AI written.

Is there any other way of approaching this other than a rewrite and/or a third party to check it?

Before posting this I checked my returned posts all 4 were rejected however today one has been posted....I am more confused than ever.

Part 1 ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************
I have been a 'lurker' on this site for several years, and, to my shame, I have never had the courtesy to write and thank some of the authors whose stories I have enjoyed. This changed recently.

Why my epiphany?

I have been following a story by Oneagainst. The story described the lives of Bea, Lotte, and Hector (who, in the stories, is always referred to as Hec) as they navigated their relationship with Hec, who became more and more submissive. It was a great story and my sole reason for being here.

So when the author ended the story after some 30+ episodes, I was deeply unhappy. I was unhappy because, as the author had created such a rich tapestry of characters and plot threads, I couldn't understand why he chose to finish the story when he did.

I was so unhappy that I contacted the author to enquire why he ended the story. Put simply, the author wanted to work on other stories, and since the Bea, Lotte and Hec story had taken up so much of his time, he wanted to close it down and begin work on others.

Still unhappy, I wrote a brief outline on how the story could proceed into a 4th ‘season’ as it were. I submitted it to the author and asked permission to continue the story and play in the world he created. To my surprise, he permitted me to do so.

The following stories continue from the last episode of One Against's story. Whilst I have tried to make this continuation of a larger story as standalone as possible, it is much richer if people have read the original work from which it follows on.

A very brief summary of the back story.

Hector signed a slave contract with his wife, Lotte, to become her 24/7 submissive in Tell Me What You Want. Lotte added to Hector's humiliation by bringing Bea, her best friend, into the arrangement to train him, but it didn't go as she planned. In Total Female Control, Lotte tightened her hold on her slave husband with Bea's help. The final part of the story, Total Power Exchange, ends with Bea asking Hec to marry her, and he agrees. My work continues with the actual wedding and continues from there.

Even if you decide my continuation stories aren't worth reading, I recommend reading Oneagainst's works; they read well and are believable.
Don't listen to the nasty idiots who tell you otherwise -- this is 100% human! It sucks and it's unfair, and my only consolation is that sometimes when a door closes on you, it might be a blessing in disguise, even if you can't see it yet. Maybe the universe is saving you from wasting your time and energy in this black hole.
 
Don't listen to the nasty idiots who tell you otherwise -- this is 100% human! It sucks and it's unfair, and my only consolation is that sometimes when a door closes on you, it might be a blessing in disguise, even if you can't see it yet. Maybe the universe is saving you from wasting your time and energy in this black hole.
To the OP, please do pay attention to who is answering your question. Published authors or just someone with an opinion.
 
To the OP, please do pay attention to who is answering your question. Published authors or just someone with an opinion.
Yes, OP, please listen to the hapless souls trapped in this purgatory who don't know any better. Your stories are not going to be published here. The rejection process is 100% random, and rest assured, they too will ultimately be ground by the machine.
 
Don't listen to the nasty idiots who tell you otherwise -- this is 100% human! It sucks and it's unfair, and my only consolation is that sometimes when a door closes on you, it might be a blessing in disguise, even if you can't see it yet. Maybe the universe is saving you from wasting your time and energy in this black hole.
Don't listen to nasty idiots whose username warns you that they are permanently separated from reality.

Yeah, I actually know what repudiated means…
 
I have used Grammarly to correct my poor punctuation and the use of a ‘passive’ voice, but other than that, it really is all my own work.
I use Grammarly to do basic spelling and punctuation. As I've said on here before, I am a recovering engineer, and I am horrible at both. I have turned off all AI features, and I decline all sentence rewrites. I have over 50 stories published, and I have never been rejected for AI. Regardless of what tool you use to review your work, never accept wholesale rewrites of your words, and yes, letting it change "voice" is using AI.
 
I use Grammarly to do basic spelling and punctuation. As I've said on here before, I am a recovering engineer, and I am horrible at both. I have turned off all AI features, and I decline all sentence rewrites. I have over 50 stories published, and I have never been rejected for AI. Regardless of what tool you use to review your work, never accept wholesale rewrites of your words, and yes, letting it change "voice" is using AI.
This ☝️☝️☝️

Many successful authors here use Grammarly to highlight issues and then fix (or ignore) things their own way. This is no obstacle to them publishing.

Accepting sentence changes from Grammarly is replacing your own work with the stolen IP of an LLM and often gets flagged.

The site told me a while back (long before the current crisis with AI submissions) that accepting the suggestions of supposed writing aids is a major cause of rejection.

I’ve never been pinged for AI, but I rely on my own reviews, read aloud, my reciprocal proof- and alpha-reader (hi @Djmac1031), and my lovely beta-readers.
 
@MadeupName01

I copied and pasted your entire post into zeroGPT and this was the result. AI tools are flawed and it's quite possible the ones lit uses are also flawed. When all is said and done, lit approves (some) AI generated stories and rejects (some) stories written by humans. In addition pending purgatory still exists where some stories (3 of mine currently are in pending purgatory) stay in pending status for no rhyme or reason. YMMV
 

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I am reminded of hearing a story, of a friend who's daughter is going to school, we're talking 2nd grade or so. She wrote a paper she was assigned, then her entire thing got flagged for 'being AI' and she got no credit for it. Her mom knew she worked on it, and not with any AI used. So she asked the teacher what part of it was AI, and she replied the beginning, specifically the definitions... the part where the kid probably can't define very well so they copied it from a dictionary for the basis of the rest of the paper.

Personally i think the rules are way too strict.
 
Hi, I flatter myself that I am an aspiring author on this site. However, my recent 4 submissions have all been rejected as ‘AI generated’ which isn’t correct. I have used Grammarly to correct my poor punctuation and the use of a ‘passive’ voice, but other than that, it really is all my own work.

My work makes use of the world created by OneAgainst with his permission.

The rejection reply says to rewrite it or use a proofreader’s services.

I have added the first part of my story to this post, which is no more than where it is from, and a very brief overview of where it all started. I have run the attached document through a couple of free AI checking tools both of which say it is not AI written.

Is there any other way of approaching this other than a rewrite and/or a third party to check it?

Before posting this I checked my returned posts all 4 were rejected however today one has been posted....I am more confused than ever.

Part 1 ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************
I have been a 'lurker' on this site for several years, and, to my shame, I have never had the courtesy to write and thank some of the authors whose stories I have enjoyed. This changed recently.

Why my epiphany?

I have been following a story by Oneagainst. The story described the lives of Bea, Lotte, and Hector (who, in the stories, is always referred to as Hec) as they navigated their relationship with Hec, who became more and more submissive. It was a great story and my sole reason for being here.

So when the author ended the story after some 30+ episodes, I was deeply unhappy. I was unhappy because, as the author had created such a rich tapestry of characters and plot threads, I couldn't understand why he chose to finish the story when he did.

I was so unhappy that I contacted the author to enquire why he ended the story. Put simply, the author wanted to work on other stories, and since the Bea, Lotte and Hec story had taken up so much of his time, he wanted to close it down and begin work on others.

Still unhappy, I wrote a brief outline on how the story could proceed into a 4th ‘season’ as it were. I submitted it to the author and asked permission to continue the story and play in the world he created. To my surprise, he permitted me to do so.

The following stories continue from the last episode of One Against's story. Whilst I have tried to make this continuation of a larger story as standalone as possible, it is much richer if people have read the original work from which it follows on.

A very brief summary of the back story.

Hector signed a slave contract with his wife, Lotte, to become her 24/7 submissive in Tell Me What You Want. Lotte added to Hector's humiliation by bringing Bea, her best friend, into the arrangement to train him, but it didn't go as she planned. In Total Female Control, Lotte tightened her hold on her slave husband with Bea's help. The final part of the story, Total Power Exchange, ends with Bea asking Hec to marry her, and he agrees. My work continues with the actual wedding and continues from there.

Even if you decide my continuation stories aren't worth reading, I recommend reading Oneagainst's works; they read well and are believable
Emily gives good advice about never letting any of the tools available to you, such as Grammarly, make the changes for you. Do them all manually.

I have used Grammarly as one tool in my editing process for years and never had a rejection. However, I have always made any suggested corrections myself.
 
As @EmilyMiller said, if you use Grammarly, do not let it make the changes. Do it yourself. The same with any spell checker.
I have used Grammarly as one tool in my editing process for years and never had a rejection. However, I have always made any suggested corrections myself.

Hmmm... It sounds a bit like there may be metadata hidden in the changed text that is flagging it moreso than the changes themselves.

I wonder, if someone who has a rejection may try the following: Copy your text, paste to notepad or notepad++, then copy that and paste as a document to be submitted. I see this when copying an excel cell to paste, it'll contains a lot of information, text, font type and sizes, formatting, image, formula, etc. but pasting to text-only strips to raw text, probably UTF-8.

Though i do suppose it's possible it could be other stupid things, like using smart quotes over regular quotes, or a Unicode version of a comma. So I'd probably go a step further and make it ASCII.

With notepad++ you can also have a side-by-side diff comparison to show every change.

Though this is just a theory.
 
Hmmm... It sounds a bit like there may be metadata hidden in the changed text that is flagging it moreso than the changes themselves.

I wonder, if someone who has a rejection may try the following: Copy your text, paste to notepad or notepad++, then copy that and paste as a document to be submitted. I see this when copying an excel cell to paste, it'll contains a lot of information, text, font type and sizes, formatting, image, formula, etc. but pasting to text-only strips to raw text, probably UTF-8.

Though i do suppose it's possible it could be other stupid things, like using smart quotes over regular quotes, or a Unicode version of a comma. So I'd probably go a step further and make it ASCII.

With notepad++ you can also have a side-by-side diff comparison to show every change.

Though this is just a theory.
People who submit Grammarly-edited stories as plain text in the box and people who upload Grammarly-edited documents have both been pinged for AI. People who use Gramamrly as an adjunct to their own editing have been successful with both plain text submissions and uploaded documents.

This area has been talked to death and many of these issues have been already been debated / investigated.
 
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People who submit Grammarly-edited stories as plain text in the box and people who upload Grammarly-edited documents have both been pinged for AI. People who use Gramamrly as an adjunct to their own editing have been successful with both plain text submissions and unloaded documents.

This area has been talked to death and many of these issues have been already been debated / investigated.
True.

I gave this some consideration when all the AI rejections began, since I only upload MS Word documents when I submit, I asked some who had pasted their stories to try uploading them instead and the stories were still rejected. Metadata does not appear to play a role.
 
Metadata does not appear to play a role.

It was a thought.

I remember years ago on a fan site for stories, where a 3Mb story was actually like 100k in text, and when you looked at the source, every single line had the same HTML tag identifying the font and a bunch of visual contextual information that was utter garbage. The HTML tags outweighed the text of each line.

Seen something similar with an epub i cleaned up a while back, where every WORD had tags mucking up a book to be hugely large and thus crashing eReaders.
 
It was a thought.

I remember years ago on a fan site for stories, where a 3Mb story was actually like 100k in text, and when you looked at the source, every single line had the same HTML tag identifying the font and a bunch of visual contextual information that was utter garbage. The HTML tags outweighed the text of each line.

Seen something similar with an epub i cleaned up a while back, where every WORD had tags mucking up a book to be hugely large and thus crashing eReaders.
The good old Microsoft Word hug of death.

It's one of the reasons I write in a glorified text editor.
 
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