Rejected for AI, any advice appreciated.

[Snekguy]

I just tried to upload my latest story, which has already been published on Amazon and other sites, and I've gotten an AI rejection for the first time on Literotica. I'm not sure why or what I should do about it.
I've been active on Literotica since 2016, so before generative AI existed, this would have been my 69th approved upload, and I've won four awards on other stories, so I didn't create this account recently and start spamming AI generated content. The last story I released (Smoking Mirrors) was on 11/09/2025, so that was barely three months ago, and it didn't get flagged by the system, which should serve as proof that I haven't suddenly pivoted to using AI. Have they made any large changes since November?
Nothing about my writing process has changed, I do not allow Grammarly or Google Docs or any other automated tools access to my document and I write entirely in LibreOffice on my local machine. Nothing about my formatting or writing style or punctuation is different, I'm not using a ton of EM dashes or bullet points or any weird characters. My writing style and workflow has been very established for years at this point.
I haven't been in this situation before so I'm not sure what I should do next. I've been reading some similar forum posts and not really finding any useful information. My workflow does not afford me the time to completely re-edit the novel solely for Literotica, even if I knew what to edit, and I've already moved on to my next project. Is there any specific change I should make before I resubmit and try to appeal? Are there any known factors that can cause this, such as formatting I should strip out? Should I remove any dashes? Should I upload the file in a different format? (I use .odt).
I understand that the AI detection system is not there to be gamed, but I genuinely can't think of anything that would have tripped it. If I'm doing something wrong, why has it not rejected other stories I've written very recently?
Any help or advice would be appreciated.

 

[Britva415]

Don't alter your work. Just re-submit it with a statement in the Notes field saying they hit you with a false positive and you're requesting a manual, human-eyes review.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Don't alter your work. Just re-submit it with a statement in the Notes field saying they hit you with a false positive and you're requesting a manual, human-eyes review.

This

 

[Snekguy]

Thanks for the advice guys, I tried to resubmit the story but it was sent back again.
"We've checked this work several times and it is still coming back as being composed largely of AI-generated prose. Please review your drafts to make sure you are not inadvertently allowing the software to add or change words or phrasing."
The story was not reviewed by a human as I requested, I resubmitted it yesterday and they rejected it today, it's a 70,000 word story.
Not sure what to say other than to emphatically deny the use of any AI, you can even follow the day-to-day updates on my website and the entire editing process from start to finish.
It's a full-length novel, and I don't have the time or the inclination to re-edit it to game whatever AI detection system Literotica is using, even if I could figure out what was tripping it.
I might just strip all of the formatting and resubmit the file under a different file type and see if that passes the checks. It'll lose all the italics and stuff but it's better than nothing I guess.
If that doesn't work I guess I'm just not posting that story here.

 

[onehitwanda]

it's a 70,000 word story.

That's not a story, that's a novel. Can you split it into chapters?

 

[Snekguy]

That's not a story, that's a novel. Can you split it into chapters?

I post all of my stories as complete works, I don't post them as chapters or parts.
Even if I were to split the story into chapters, I write professionally and I've moved on to my next project, so I can't dedicate the time to extensively re-edit the content just for Literotica, unfortunately. I should reiterate that no other places I've uploaded the story have flagged it as AI.

 

[SkyBubble]

That's not a story, that's a novel. Can you split it into chapters?

That's actually not a bad suggestion. but @Snekguy if you do it that way, you might have to create a series manually. And it's probably advisable to wait until one chapter is published to submit the next one.

It might point you to where the problem is.

 

[Snekguy]

Taht's actually not a bad suggestion. but @Snekguy if you do it that way, you might have to create a series manually. And it's probably advisable to wait until one chapter is published to submit the next one.

It might point you to where the problem is.

It could be something to try I suppose, but I'd be surprised if that was the issue. The story I posted in November (Smoking Mirrors) was 50,000 words. The story I posted before that 5 months ago (Dire Contingency) was 500,000 words. Neither were flagged as AI.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I post all of my stories as complete works, I don't post them as chapters or parts.

You're still up against a bot, if you've had 70k words rejected overnight. You might have more chance getting before human eyes if you spilt the novel up into chapters.

My first suggestion, though, would be to copy paste into the submission Form - that might reveal some html crap that could be a false AI trigger.

 

[Snekguy]

You're still up against a bot, if you've had 70k words rejected overnight. You might have more chance getting before human eyes if you spilt the novel up into chapters.

My first suggestion, though, would be to copy paste into the submission Form - that might reveal some html crap that could be a false AI trigger.

That's a good suggestion, I've stripped all of the formatting and submitted a plain text file, so hopefully that'll pass the check if it was anything to do with weird formatting.

 

[Snekguy]

I just wanted to update you guys, after the original file was rejected twice, I resubmitted the story as a plain text file with all of the formatting scrubbed. This seems to have done the trick. The story was published successfully, albeit without any italics or special characters, but it's better than nothing!

In conclusion, I think it's safe to say that something about the formatting of the document, NOT the content of the story, was tripping Literotica's AI detection system. I have no idea how this system works, but I hope that maybe the staff can learn from my experience and maybe tweak whatever variable is causing these false positives.

If you are having issues with your story being rejected, maybe try this and see if it helps.

 

[TheLobster]

In conclusion, I think it's safe to say that something about the formatting of the document, NOT the content of the story, was tripping Literotica's AI detection system.

That’s a failure mode I don’t think we’ve seen before. It seems worth reporting as a bug, especially if you still have the original file around and can attach it to the report.

 

[millamomud]

Just proves how stupid the system is.