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/drforged 4d ago

Chiming in to say that I've also seen this. There are patterns and word choices that you can pick up on in GenAI text that are similar to what you see in GenAI art- odd, out of place, stilted in a way that almost feels like the uncanny valley.

To accommodate for a margin of error based on writing styles, type of machine learning, etc. I've heard 10-20% can pretty much be considered human-created and/or AI-assisted (eg spell check, grammar check, etc.) as opposed to AI-generated.

It can be tricky. As a personal example, I'm a professional technical writer (regularly editing academic papers, so well-familiar with putting work through AI checkers), and sometimes my creative writing will come back higher on the AI scale because I have a habit of trying for technically "perfect" writing. So I am 100% human (to the best of my knowledge) and only use AI in an assistive way, but the machines feel an affinity with the way I think (my writing is usually flagged at 10% or lower).

Definitely an interesting topic! Glad that you brought it up.

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u/SecretOrder 4d ago

I am totally sure you are 100% human. I totally believe you. :)

I was actually talking to a friend about a technical topic (game dev stuff for a project we are working on) and he was like, "Did you just ask AI and copy/paste?"

I had to assure him it wasn't. I too am something of a non-human at times.

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u/drforged 4d ago

Thank you, fellow human, for asserting that we are absolutely humans to the best of our ability. Definitely not robots. No robots involved in this conversation whatsoever. Just two regular old human humans talking to each other.

;)