People are using AI but not disclosing it. How do you detect it ?

[The Radiance's Follower]

So. Many people in a lot of website are using AI to "write" stories these days. QQ has not been spared. I can feel that some stories use AI but I have no proof. And I don't want to throw shade at someone and it not being AI.

Th worst thing is that the premise of some of these stories are interesting but when you read it you get a flash bang of AI slop.

I am not counting in people who just use AI for proof reading.

How do you prove that a story is AI ? I personally just look at the tempo and punctuation. Also the usage of em dashes is a sure sign but not a definitive one. AI stories have a certain measured way of writing. It takes a lot of time to move from one scene to another.

I am tired of investing myself in a story and then start suspecting it's AI. Will there ever be a solution ? I am begging for the AI bubble to pop.

 

[ALandWithNoName]

hm. i forget what the term is in psych, but one of the implied problems is that simply reading a series of words . . . oh, priming!
the problem i see, is that the more ai stories are written, the more are read, and the more inclined people are towards priming in the same way ai is writing. a literal self-reinforcing loop.

How do you prove that a story is AI ? I personally just look at the tempo and punctuation.

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basically, i disagree. i think people are simply going to emulate more and more what they read. as ai gains more exposure, people imprint on the style, and it loops around.

generally, i would look for concrete logic mistakes. for example, a paragraph establishing something one way, and then three paragraphs later, hard contradictions of the first paragraph. 'x had fiery red hair' 3 paragraphs later 'x's cerulean hair blows in the wind'

sometimes, you get lucky, and the prompt is left in the final draft. to be honest, i think that's really the only surefire way.

now, about em dashes... how the fuck do i approach that topic? i am greatly inspired by a certain 1890's author named Joseph Conrad. I want to make very clear, that English was not his first language, and he was not from the US.

Article:

TO MY READERS IN AMERICA​

From that evening when James Wait joined the ship—late for the muster of the crew—to the moment when he left us in the open sea, shrouded in sailcloth, through the open port, I had much to do with him. He was in my watch. A negro in a British forecastle is a lonely being. He has no chums. Yet James Wait, afraid of death and making her his accomplice was an impostor of some character—mastering our compassion, scornful of our sentimentalism, triumphing over our suspicions.

But in the book he is nothing; he is merely the centre of the ship's collective psychology and the pivot of the action. Yet he, who in the family circle and amongst my friends is familiarly referred to as the Nigger, remains very precious to me. For the book written round him is not the sort of thing that can be attempted more than once in a life-time. It is the book by which, not as a novelist perhaps, but as an artist striving for the utmost sincerity of expression, I am willing to stand or fall. Its pages are the tribute of my unalterable and profound affection for the ships, the seamen, the winds and the great sea—the moulders of my youth, the companions of the best years of my life.

After writing the last words of that book, in the revulsion of feeling before the accomplished task, I understood that I had done with the sea, and that henceforth I had to be a writer. And almost without laying down the pen I wrote a preface, trying to express the spirit in which I was entering on the task of my new life. That preface on advice (which I now think was wrong) was never published with the book. But the late W. E. Henley, who had the courage at that time (1897) to serialize my "Nigger" in the New Review judged it worthy to be printed as an afterword at the end of the last instalment of the tale.

I am glad that this book which means so much to me is coming out again, under its proper title of "The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'" and under the auspices of my good friends and publishers Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. into the light of publicity. Half the span of a generation has passed since W. E. Henley, after reading two chapters, sent me a verbal message: "Tell Conrad that if the rest is up to the sample it shall certainly come out in the New Review." The most gratifying recollection of my writer's life!

And here is the Suppressed Preface.
1914. JOSEPH CONRAD.

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17731/17731-h/17731-h.htm

i have personal feelings about the usage of em dashes in English. they can be summed up as truly proper expression of our limited vernacular. the disdain of em dashes i see as nothing but barbarism. use them.

 

[The Radiance's Follower]

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Pretty disappointing conclusion. So there is no way to find out if a story is AI unless the author reveal or self-report by being lazy enough and leaving mistakes. Mistakes that an author that is not using AI can also make.