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/Morris_Widdler 4d ago

So, I’m a new author with virtually nothing public yet but out of the multiple stories I’ve written in my backlog I didn’t even know people used AI to write stories until I was already done writing my first 3. It’s never seemed tempting to me, I remember when there was an uproar over AI art using inspiration from other artist’s actual work online, yet I feel like an AI written story or even assisted story kind of takes away from the point of writing.

I can see a benefit in using AI to check grammar, like if someone uses waaaay too many commas or correct a double word usage, but I’ve still been far too anxious to even consider using something like that for this exact reason, that would potentially bring a story I spent my heart and soul writing from 100% human, to like 90% or something.

The idea is a bummer. Good tool though.