Are stories written by AI good?

[RainingFish]

There’s a lot of talk about AI stories, so I figured, why not add some more? So, is AI writing good?

 

[FieryLou]

Yes, very good. No lowly human could ever compare... The upload rate, the broad flowerly vocabulary and the peak uniqueness makes it superb -- not...

 

[Snake99]

It's a waste of time reading something made by AI.

 

[FieryLou]

It's a waste of time reading something made by AI.

Just copy the chapter into another AI and let it summarize it for you

 

[Garolymar]

I dunno about books but sometimes it can write really funny stuff.

It'd probably wouldn't be coherent enough to do much long form stuff, but I'm sure in the future it might be able to.

 

[melchi]

@Ai-chan writes good stories.

 

[N0xiety]

Without extensive editing and a human who knows what they are doing holding the helm firmly, guiding the story according to their vision, keeping it consistent, no. But at that point, instead of being AI written, it's more like AI assisted. Even then, very rarely can they be said to be good, as the human resorting to using AI is rarely good.

 

[Alski]

Its good provided your knowledge of the language is bad.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

As of current, no.

 

[Soumiyya]

Tbh I think anything made with generative AI regardless of medium is poor quality and reliant on data landering unfortunately.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Technically they're "perfect" - but so are Pringles potato crisps and some people find those repulsive. Also they are generally soulless. If you are into soulless perfection, they can be good and may one day approach art but ... they are not.

 

[Tempokai]

They're only good when you can't differentiate between real or LLM made, so no. The patterns are too baked in for typical average LLM to come up with a good story. I already tested it, and the basic principle is that it will take the path of least resistance when given a prompt, and that's the worst way to write a story. Dao Of Efficiency is cool, sure, but it never beats the Dao Of Storytelling, because it curves, displaces the sediment it carries, never in a straight line like Efficiency does.

 

[OokamiOkuri]

Stories written by AI could be good when directed by a human, and only for the purpose of entertainment.

Like the Happy Batday Birthman and Comrade Kim-Haru ones.

But at that point, the stories are no longer entirely AI generated.

AI can generate the story, but if a human shapes or edits it, it becomes a collaboration.

So the answer is, AI writing is not good out of the box.

People publishing them without editing are bad actors trying to flood a platform with low-quality content.

 

[SurfAngel_1031]

There’s a lot of talk about AI stories, so I figured, why not add some more? So, is AI writing good?

It has fooled me more than once. I like to hover around the feedback threads for both giving a opinion and listening to others.

So, there have been times where I've read something that was really good and about to write a great review, just to find out it that what I'd read was AI.

Which then annoys me since I'm giving feedback to basically a cheater. I mean yeah, if you cheat in a video game you do well. Many times you do great. But it's not really you doing it. It's a bot or something being exploited that's making you look good, and you take the credit.

So then I have to take away my feedback and say something like - not rating an AI story. The fun I try and get from helping someone figure out their style or improve on their idea is just sapped from me by AI.

 

[Edenc2708]

I'm not sure why the context of using AI is often misunderstood.
Judging a story purely based on whether AI was involved feels unfair.


Whether a story is good or not should be determined by how it is written, not by what tools were used.
AI is just another tool, like anything else.
If an artist draws by hand, we call it art.
If another artist uses Photoshop to create the same brush strokes, we don't call it cheating. It's still art.


The same goes for me.
I use AI to help with my writing.
I write my stories, and when I feel that a sentence or paragraph sounds awkward, I send it to the AI for grammar checking or ask for better wording suggestions.
Some professional authors have editorial teams to help polish their work.
Me? I do not have that.
So I make AI my editor.


Professional authors use a tool called "editors."
I use a tool called "AI assisting as an editor."


However, I also believe that letting AI completely write something without guidance, without editing, and just publishing it without review ... that is simply bad practice.

 

[Alfir]

Really makes me cry. Got flamed for using AI, even got accused of AI generated story, gotten called out to be writing AI slop, when it is AI-assisted story. It hurts to engage them, even if it is just one person, that it kills the motivation of even wanting to write anything. One out of fifteen stories, one was AI assisted and the others weren't. It was the AI assisted that got a breakthrough in readership. Sorry for venting out, but SH isn't as nice like I thought it was. There will always be the one exception and more.

Anyone here have a suggestion how to fill the sanity gauge?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Anyone here have a suggestion how to fill the sanity gauge?

Nope. My SAN has not been in double digits in decades. Hail Cthulhu!

 

[Ai-chan]

@Ai-chan writes good stories.

Thanks, Melchi! Because of you, Ai-chan is motivated to write again. Let's start with the incest story. This one. Ai-chan just dropped the long-awaited prologue and a new chapter today.

 

[K_Jira]

Maybe because I've only been rereading stories I know lately, I haven't encountered an AI story. Can anyone give me an example? Is it difficult to discern?

 

[StoneInky]

Eh, I don't care about whether a story is AI written or not.

A badly written story is a badly written story, no matter what was used to make it. The only problem is people asking for reviews on their stuff without disclosing it was written or assisted by AI.

If you use a machine/tool, then ask for help from the people who perfected the same craft by hand, without telling em you used a machine/tool... doesn't that feel rude and a waste of time?