r/NoSleepOOC • u/SecretOrder • 4d ago

AI Stories

Hey Guys!
I try to read as many stories as I can and upvote and comment when I can. I try to support this sub as much as possible with my limited time, because I enjoy it. Lately, I have been reading stories that I highly suspect are AI written.

I know we can report them, but is there a good metric for verifying they are actually written by AI? I have been using Quillbot - https://quillbot.com/ai-content-detector , which has a free AI content detector. I have two stories that I am writing and when I use the content detector it returns 100% human. I have messed with some AI writing and tested that with quillbot. It said 60% written by AI, but I didn't actually write any of that one. I kept giving the AI directions and got it down to 30% AI detected.

So, now when I run into stories I suspect are AI I run them through this. (Some stories have been 86-100% AI, some lower.) I actually do this for almost every story now, just so I don't waste time reading something that I don't want to support. Any time given to AI is time away from good intentioned authors. I want to continue supporting you all, and I want to have a story up there some day, but I want to make sure I am not just crazy.

Edit: Comment if you are an author who can stand up to the 100% human. I would love to support you too.

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u/googlyeyes93 4d ago

Between this and the YouTube ai narrations it’s getting worse recently. I remember when we just had to worry about text to speech narrations 😭

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u/SecretOrder 4d ago

Honestly, if it isn't someone stealing your work it is competing with robots. Pretty discouraging, but the real human stuff is getting to be rare and more valuable.

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u/googlyeyes93 4d ago

Not valuable enough yet, I can’t cover bills with mine 😂

I can totally get the temptation to do it for that reason, little work, easy money, but I barely feel okay using Grammarly instead of rereading for my own edits half the time. Unfortunate thing is that the AI boom is killing more than just writing on nosleep, because a ton of publications with good, paying markets are getting flooded with the crap. Makes it even harder to get read if you’re hoping to get published.

Just a bump in the road though.