AI generated stories

I just wanted to address this because it's something we're seeing more and more of, and given the state of the world, I suspect it's only going in one direction.

coughs skynet coughs

This is a writing site, but more than that, it's a community of writers and readers who encourage, feed back to, assist and champion other amateur writers who take time and effort to learn the rules of grammar, hone their craft, edit and edit and edit and then put out something for others to hopefully enjoy.

Plugging something into an AI generator and presenting a story about five seconds later, in my opinion, is just as bad as plagiarism, which is already the top cardinal sin on a writing site.

I've no doubt that some people just won't care in the slightest that it's not their own work, but I'm going to ask anyway. Please don't. Don't cheat, don't take the easy way, don't pass skynet's generic wank fodder off as your own. Don't feed your ideas into an engine and kid yourself on that you wrote something because it uses your own experiences. Have a go yourself.

If we do find out your story is AI generated, your story will be deleted and you may face an account ban.

Thanks.

Ps. We also don't accept stories translated from other languages using AI.

Bump.

Please note, AI stories will be deleted and repeat offenders banned.

We don't use AI to detect AI. After extensive testing (1 year+), we weren't comfortable with any of the AI scanners out there. Many of them give false positives, and then try to upsell 'fixes' to humanize stories.

We advise you don't use AI detectors to check your own, or our published content.

We have our own methods based on empirical observation, and reach a consensus among the mod team. If a consensus can't be met, we give writers the benefit of the doubt.

We're still developing our processes, and are fully aware that stories with various degrees of AI-generated content are getting published, but we're very happy so far that we catch the majority.