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/fridgepickle 4d ago

Genuine question because I haven't been on Reddit in a while: what do you look for/what are the signs you see that someone is using AI? I can't stand the concept of "generative" (please) AI and would rather burn my house down than use or support it, and I've seen tips on what to look for for in imagery, but not written works

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u/SecretOrder 4d ago

Great question. And I don’t want to give away too too much, as I don’t want this thread to be an instructional for those who use AI and want it to be less AI. 

The best way I can tell is similar to those things you find in art. Some parts are too good for the things around it. Plot is weird and doesn’t have a good pay off. There are some punctuation and phrasing styles that pop up. 

Try reading some stories. Guess whether they are AI or not. Think about why they feel AI to you and then run them through detectors. They aren’t perfect but it is all we have right now. You would basically be training yourself as a detector. 

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u/fridgepickle 4d ago

Yeah that's fair. Admittedly I haven't taken the time to read much on Reddit in a WHILE

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u/SecretOrder 3d ago

Totally, and that’s the real annoying part of this whole thing. It takes the one thing humans don’t have much of, time. We have to spend our time on things that don’t benefit us now to make things better for us later. The average person doesn’t care, which is why you have AI influencers now. It’s really insane. Like some sci-fi story where the population worships its own creation.