I am highly convinced this story is AI generated.

[Makimaam]

From the sound of it the original was better. The AI/LLM polished it with

Stating the obvious cow

 

[Anonjohn20]

Stating the obvious

What isn't obvious is how an LLM polishing the grammar would change the setting entirely, delete characters, change the themes/genre of the story, make the previous chapter 1 to 5 disappear and replace it with a new 1 to 5, etc.

 

[Makimaam]

What isn't obvious is how an LLM polishing the grammar would change the setting entirely, delete characters, change the themes/genre of the story, make the previous chapter 1 to 5 disappear and replace it with a new 1 to 5, etc.

LLMs have an aversion to smut, they can tone something down to polite… hotness or whatever it’s called. As for characters and setting, that’s entirely up to the author’s decision to change.

There are different kinds of ai sounding writing:

1. Prompt bros: People who only write prompts and ask an LLM to generate a story. That’s ai gen and the most obvious form of ai writing.

2. Authors who write their own chapters and ask ai to polish them: Still often has an obvious ai signature because it will replace their voice.

3. Authors who ask ai to translate their work into English: This is the least obvious of the 3, but a keen eye can detect it because ai prioritizes correct translation over changing the voice.

Lastly, authors who use ai for minor grammar polishing: You generally won’t be able to tell this at all.

 

[MizumiSonozawa]

Imagine being such a loser you have to have AI write for you. This is just plain sad, any and all creative talent is gone.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

Lastly, authors who use ai for minor grammar polishing: You generally won’t be able to tell this at all.

I'm a non-native English speaker/writer, so I use this to correct my 'in' and 'on' and other grammar stuff.

 

[OokamiOkuri]

LLMs have an aversion to smut, they can tone something down to polite… hotness or whatever it’s called. As for characters and setting, that’s entirely up to the author’s decision to change.

They also have an aversion to violence and is always moralizing things. Can't have characters fight to the death. Description of injuries are sanitized.

And then we have the fourth kind of AI sounding writing:

4. Authors whose works were used to train the LLM without their knowledge and consent. Most of them were fanfic writers because LLM were trained on a lot of fanfics.

 

[AliceMoonvale]

I got accussed of using AI for having the word phospheresence

What? that's crazy! Phosphorescence* is such a casual word found in everyday conversation! How dare they find it weird. I surely don't.

LLMs have an aversion to smut, they can tone something down to polite… hotness or whatever it’s called. As for characters and setting, that’s entirely up to the author’s decision to change.

There are different kinds of ai sounding writing:

1. Prompt bros: People who only write prompts and ask an LLM to generate a story. That’s ai gen and the most obvious form of ai writing.

2. Authors who write their own chapters and ask ai to polish them: Still often has an obvious ai signature because it will replace their voice.

3. Authors who ask ai to translate their work into English: This is the least obvious of the 3, but a keen eye can detect it because ai prioritizes correct translation over changing the voice.

Lastly, authors who use ai for minor grammar polishing: You generally won’t be able to tell this at all.

5. Authors who pitch their idea world salad to an LLM and ask for potential ideas to make things better , who either A; choose one of the mostly shitty sounding ones and go with it or B; look at all the terrible ideas and become inspired enough from it to make their own that's better, telling the LLM they suck ass.

 

[Anonjohn20]

LLMs have an aversion to smut, they can tone something down to polite… hotness or whatever it’s called. As for characters and setting, that’s entirely up to the author’s decision to change.

An author's decision. Yeah, it totally is an author's decision to have the smut, mature, and adult genres but have 0 content that matches those genres. It's totally reasonable to fail to meet up to the expectations of everyone who chose to give the story a chance.

Who the hell wrote this? All three of the new women were living their lives fine before they met him, but he miraculously runs into them when they are less than a day from death unless they start taking his treatments every day. And now the upright goody-two-shoes antagonist officer who threatened the corrupt magistrate is conveniently also corrupt.

 

[JayMark]

What? that's crazy! Phosphorescence* is such a casual word found in everyday conversation! How dare they find it weird. I surely don't.

It fit in context and I actually have a decent vocabulary. I barely ever even use thesaurus. Spell checker is another matter. I use that because I'm dyslexic, learned to read phonetically, and can't be bothered to memorize a bunch of exact speling.

 

[Anonjohn20]

Update: In the story, Elara, the guildmaster, can completely abandon her guild duties on a whim and leave town with the MC. When they climb up to the spire (a place she lived in her whole life before moving down for her job), the air she should be used to is too clean and mana-dense, so it hurts her, but the new air doesn't hurt the hobgoblin, who travelled up there for the first time. It's like he forgets what he wrote 2 chapters ago.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Maybe it's like one of the stories I listen to on Pocket FM - I'm convinced the actual author writes about 500 words per chapter, then has AI pad each one out to 2000.

 

[TheKillingAlice]

Yeah, I mean title confusion could lean into more of a translation thing in my mind, but being unable to make a 'law' consistent when it becomes a point of tension means a failure for basic consistency within a short space of a few chapters.
Part of that might just be my bias to establishing a setting before doing stuff in a story, but I'd expect the most basic conflicts to at least be plotted beforehand.

I agree with how you should plan ahead. I'm not actually a planner, but I have what I call "Trivia Excels" on different stories on my hard drive.
There's an array of information, depending on the story and what could be relevant in it, from names, to certain affiliations or other random info - if I just keep it to myself, I can mix and match depending on what rolls best thst day, but once I've started putting it into word, it needs to stay consistent. Getting something wrong you may or may not have changed around, while testing the idea in your, doesn't mean the story will break; the change might be inconsequential. But it sure does look incompetent to your audience.
Though it's not an explicit sign of AI, to stay on topic with the thread, I guess. I know writers that can't line up 200 Words in succession without causing a cognitive cataclysm. They can't hold onto a thought for two minutes, let alone several chapters.
Then again, that's the type of person you'd wish used AI - for all its worth, it would grant them some form of intelligence at last.

Maybe it's like one of the stories I listen to on Pocket FM

What's that? Yes, I'm too lazy to Google.
Have a cookie as a bribe.

 

[Ararara]

The starting chapters seemed mostly fine, but around chapter 7 the AI voice got much stronger, if you ask me. I really don't think it's completely AI-generated like u say, just heavily AI-assisted, yeah. The author probably replaced old chapters 1-5 with new rewritten and "improved" versions