Wry Ramblings From A Hot Wing

[Lee Wilson]

4 hours ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

So when I watch youtube shorts or reels, whatever the is called, I've been seeing a bunch of AI generated content, either videos or stories. And you can always tell when a story has been written with AI, the same short sentences, repeating phrases over and over again. 

I don't believe people actually believe these obviously fake stories. 

That beings said, I'm starting to pick up stories posted on GA with those same troupes. 

I guess my question is, how do everyone feel about authors posting AI stories on the site? If they would mention in the notes, this story was enhaced by AI I might be able to look the other way, but what if they are passing it off like it's their own story? 

 

I used AI for one or two sections of Darren’s New Life. But I did mention it in my authors notes. I’d never do a whole story with it, just sections I needed a little help on.

[Davide]

7 hours ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

So when I watch youtube shorts or reels, whatever the is called, I've been seeing a bunch of AI generated content, either videos or stories. And you can always tell when a story has been written with AI, the same short sentences, repeating phrases over and over again. 

I don't believe people actually believe these obviously fake stories. 

That beings said, I'm starting to pick up stories posted on GA with those same troupes. 

I guess my question is, how do everyone feel about authors posting AI stories on the site? If they would mention in the notes, this story was enhaced by AI I might be able to look the other way, but what if they are passing it off like it's their own story? 

 

I'm fine with authors using AI in small ways, although I'd prefer they disclose that (for example, the way Lee said above he used it). But I wouldn't like heavy AI use on a story. And I don't mind authors generating AI images of their characters, as long as they say it.

Edited March 23 by Davide

[CassieQ]

I never use AI.  So far, the AI stories I've seen floating around on social media have been repetitive, clunky and almost nonsensical, especially near the end, but I'm sure as things progress they'll get more sophisticated to the point where we can't tell if it's AI or just a poorly written story.

I don't think it's right for someone to post a fully written AI story and claim it's their own.  It's in the same boat as plagiarism for me.  But I'm sure eventually someone is going to try.

[Jason Rimbaud]

12 hours ago, Lee Wilson said:

I used AI for one or two sections of Darren’s New Life. But I did mention it in my authors notes. I’d never do a whole story with it, just sections I needed a little help on.

The reason I even asked, I think I found two separate stories yesterday that were either written by AI or "enhanced" by AI. It's repetitive and has that clipped rhythm that authors just don't construct sentences that way. It took me out, and I could no longer read it. 

And kudos to you for disclosing, as I think we should be able to use tools to help us create, but hiding that fact and putting it out as original work feels wrong to me. 

And I don't know why I'm so bothered by those two stories. Maybe I'm jealous those stories have more views than my own? Especially after I spent literally hundreds of hours writing every single word of my stories. But It bothers me.  

I started to go through their earlier stories to see how they wrote before AI tools became readily available. Maybe these two authors have always written in that manner and I'm getting upset over nothing. But I don't think so.  

 

 

 

[Jason Rimbaud]

9 hours ago, Davide said:

I'm fine with authors using AI in small ways, although I'd prefer they disclose that (for example, the way Lee said above he used it). But I wouldn't like heavy AI use on a story. And I don't mind authors generating AI images of their characters, as long as they say it.

My husband told me to let it go and not read that story or that author. 

But sometimes I get so fixated on something I can't break the cycle. I know it's not healthy and its something I am working on but it's really driving me a bit crazy. 

[Jason Rimbaud]

5 hours ago, CassieQ said:

I never use AI.  So far, the AI stories I've seen floating around on social media have been repetitive, clunky and almost nonsensical, especially near the end, but I'm sure as things progress they'll get more sophisticated to the point where we can't tell if it's AI or just a poorly written story.

I don't think it's right for someone to post a fully written AI story and claim it's their own.  It's in the same boat as plagiarism for me.  But I'm sure eventually someone is going to try.

I think that is the reason it bothers me so, plagiarism hurts my heart. Its basically lying. 

[Davide]

Just now, Jason Rimbaud said:

My husband told me to let it go and not read that story or that author. 

But sometimes I get so fixated on something I can't break the cycle. I know it's not healthy and its something I am working on but it's really driving me a bit crazy. 

I completely get you, I've also had times when I wasn't able to stop doing something I knew was mentally unhealthy for me.

10 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

And I don't know why I'm so bothered by those two stories. Maybe I'm jealous those stories have more views than my own? Especially after I spent literally hundreds of hours writing every single word of my stories. But It bothers me.  

I'd be bothered by that too if were a writer*. Other stories getting more views happens and I don't always think the best stories get the most attention. But it feels different when they're getting an unfair advantage via the use of AI.

*As a tangent, English is weird, "If I were" has never stopped sounding wrong because it doesn't make sense to me, but I know it's right.

[CassieQ]

1 hour ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

I think that is the reason it bothers me so, plagiarism hurts my heart. Its basically lying. 

As a person who has had her work plagarized, 100% not a fan.

[Jason Rimbaud]

8 minutes ago, CassieQ said:

As a person who has had her work plagarized, 100% not a fan.

Are you talking about my theory over in Hazardous?  . 

I guess when you're a good writer like you, people want to steal your work. I can understand that. And on the other side, no one has ever stolen my work.  

[Lee Wilson]

9 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

Are you talking about my theory over in Hazardous?  . 

I guess when you're a good writer like you, people want to steal your work. I can understand that. And on the other side, no one has ever stolen my work.  

It’s not all bad. I doubt stealing one’s work from here wouldn’t be all that common. Sure it could happen, but I’d bet a vast majority of users here would never even consider it.

[CassieQ]

1 hour ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

Are you talking about my theory over in Hazardous?  . 

I guess when you're a good writer like you, people want to steal your work. I can understand that. And on the other side, no one has ever stolen my work.  

I like your Hazardous theory.  per your request, I'm keeping the details of your accuracy under wraps.

It's so weird to steal stories too.  The fun is in the creating.   

Edited March 23 by CassieQ

[Jason Rimbaud]

4 minutes ago, CassieQ said:

The fun is in the creating. 

I agree. I love creating a story no one reads!  . 

4 minutes ago, CassieQ said:

I like your Hazardous theory.  per your request, I'm keeping the details of your accuracy under wraps

hahahaah, I'd probably fall over and die if even one of those things happens.   hahahaahah

[Davide]

18 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

I agree. I love creating a story no one reads!  . 

Don't mind me, I'm going to quote another post for no particular reason.

On 3/16/2026 at 10:17 PM, Jason Rimbaud said:

Quick Update! I am 330,000 words into a story that I can never post online. Nearly 800 pages and its a complete waste of time.

 

[Jason Rimbaud]

1 minute ago, Davide said:

Quick Update! I am 330,000 words into a story that I can never post online. Nearly 800 pages and its a complete waste of time.

See, I wasn't lying that I love to write/right stories no one will read!   hahahaah

[chris191070]

21 minutes ago, Davide said:

Don't mind me, I'm going to quote another post for no particular reason.

 

I wanna read it, especially as you can't post it.

[Davide]

Yesterday's conversation about AI stories has me wondering if I'll notice if I'm reading one. I hope so, because I wouldn't want to contribute to them getting attention. I'm sure that, at the current level of AI, I'm capable of confidently looking at some stories and saying they're too well written or too much like one a style I already recognise from the author to be AI. But I don't know if I can distinguish all of them.

[Jason Rimbaud]

3 minutes ago, Davide said:

Yesterday's conversation about AI stories has me wondering if I'll notice if I'm reading one. I hope so, because I wouldn't want to contribute to them getting attention. I'm sure that, at the current level of AI, I'm capable of confidently looking at some stories and saying they're too well written or too much like one a style I already recognise from the author to be AI. But I don't know if I can distinguish all of them.

You are already reading an AI story, I've seen your comments on it.  .  Allegedly. 

Edited March 24 by Jason Rimbaud

[Jason Rimbaud]

To further expound, I think AI is going to be creeping in to many stories. And if authors would admit to it, I wouldn't have the issue I am struggling with now. 

My unease at calling out stories I think are written either by AI or heavily influenced, I don't know if its accurate or if I'm just being a dodo head. To put myself in a better frame of mind, I stopped reading stories except from those authors I trust. 

I think I'm going to stay out of the blame game and I don't think I'll be bringing it up again. But I'll never use AI, I want all the credit for my silly stories and I don't share that with anything, person or machine. 

[Davide]

51 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

You are already reading an AI story, I've seen your comments on it.  .  Allegedly. 

Oh, shit. I know you can't say each one, not without being certain, which isn't possible. There's always stories I'm reading that I'm less invested into than others, I hope it's one of those.

There's a thing about identifying AI written stories, which I didn't think of yesterday. I've seen stories written before AI that would have probably been accused of being AI nowadays. They had, for example, dialogue that sounds a bit unnatural to how people actually speak. Sometimes that can be because of AI, but those examples too old to be that. Sometimes people have good ideas and aren't as good at putting them into words. I tried to figure out which one it might be, but I got nothing.

In the chance that whichever one of the stories I'm reading is actually AI, I apologise to all real authors for contributing to supporting that instead of human written stories. And I can't do anything about it because I don't even know which story it allegedly is. I tried to figure out which one it might be, but I have no clue after looking through a few.

Edited March 24 by Davide

[Jason Rimbaud]

24 minutes ago, Davide said:

Oh, shit. I know you can't say each one, not without being certain, which isn't possible. There's always stories I'm reading that I'm less invested into than others, I hope it's one of those.

There's a thing about identifying AI written stories, which I didn't think of yesterday. I've seen stories written before AI that would have probably been accused of being AI nowadays. They had, for example, dialogue that sounds a bit unnatural to how people actually speak. Sometimes that can be because of AI, but those examples too old to be that. Sometimes people have good ideas and aren't as good at putting them into words.

In the chance that whichever one of the stories I'm reading is actually AI, I apologise to all real authors for contributing to supporting that instead of human written stories. And I can't do anything about it because I don't even know which story it allegedly is.

It's about patterns in speech, there is a rhythm to AI writing, and it always links ideas together that almost fits but your mind tickles at the unusualness of the wording. And there are a bunch of adjectives in weird places. 

Here is an example of AI writing. 

"The neon rain slicked the streets of Neo-Veridia, reflecting the city’s electric blues and jaded reds in a thousand jagged shards. Elara gripped the hard drive inside her trench coat, the metal cold against her ribs, while the humming drone of city security scanners circled overhead. She didn’t stop at the holographic stoplight; to stop was to be caught, and the data she carried was too heavy for a holding cell. She melted into the alleyway’s shadows, whispering a frantic, silent prayer that the AI patrolling the district was still distracted by the decoy signal she’d sent five minutes ago."

But the wording, "the data she carried was too heavy for a holding cell". It almost works but it's just off enough to make you shake your head. "The humming drone of city security scanners circled overhead" It's all about adding adjectives and descriptive words that are one step too far. Its almost flowery and written to evoke emotion, the issue is, its too much emotion and AI stories repeat themselves and never really get to an ending. Because most AI stories are designed to get you to keep reading for either clickbait, views, or ad buys. 

The above example was completely written by AI with me inputing random tropes, rain, running from authority, frightened. 

When AI is used to punch up a story, you get less dialogue and lots of internal conflict narration as AI has trouble really creating conversations because its designed to evoke emotion with adjectives. So when you see a story written in this manner, good chance its AI created or AI enhanced through "spelling or grammar" programs.  

Edited March 24 by Jason Rimbaud

[Davide]

11 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

It's about patterns in speech, there is a rhythm to AI writing, and it always links ideas together that almost fits but your mind tickles at the unusualness of the wording. And there are a bunch of adjectives in weird places. 

Here is an example of AI writing. 

"The neon rain slicked the streets of Neo-Veridia, reflecting the city’s electric blues and jaded reds in a thousand jagged shards. Elara gripped the hard drive inside her trench coat, the metal cold against her ribs, while the humming drone of city security scanners circled overhead. She didn’t stop at the holographic stoplight; to stop was to be caught, and the data she carried was too heavy for a holding cell. She melted into the alleyway’s shadows, whispering a frantic, silent prayer that the AI patrolling the district was still distracted by the decoy signal she’d sent five minutes ago."

But the wording, "the data she carried was too heavy for a holding cell". It almost works but it's just off enough to make you shake your head. "The humming drone of city security scanners circled overhead" It's all about adding adjectives and descriptive words that are one step too far. Its almost flowery and written to evoke emotion, the issue is, its too much emotion and AI stories repeat themselves and never really get to an ending. Because most AI stories are designed to get you to keep reading for either clickbait, views, or ad buys. 

The above example was completely written by AI with me inputing random tropes, rain, running from authority, frightened. 

When AI is used to punch up a story, you get less dialogue and lots of internal conflict narration as AI has trouble really creating conversations because its designed to evoke emotion with adjectives. So when you see a story written in this manner, could chance its AI created or AI enhanced through "spelling or grammar" programs.  

Thanks for the explanation. Now I have a theory about which story you're referring to, but of course I won't say it. And I hope I'm right because I have mostly stopped following this one, for a reason that your comment made me realise may have been a consequence of AI writing.

Edited March 24 by Davide

[Davide]

I feel bad that I'm potentially supporting AI written stories, which affects human writers. And, in my mind, it doesn't matter that I didn't realise it because human writers are still hurts, regardless of why I'm doing it.

[Jason Rimbaud]

2 minutes ago, Davide said:

I feel bad that I'm potentially supporting AI written stories, which affects human writers. And, in my mind, it doesn't matter that I didn't realise it because human writers are still hurts, regardless of why I'm doing it.

It's an interesting point in the genesis of creative writers. 

AI is here to stay, and has been for several years before we knew it. And the change was gradual, so now many people have no clue that most of what they read online was generated by AI. Because one person can type in random words and out pops an article, story, ad copy, or any other thing they need without employing real people. 

There are entire parts of Amazon dedicated to AI-generated content, and people are eating it up with real dollars. I predict that the next big author is going to be AI. Maybe not tomorrow or next year, but we haven't had a real author make a huge splash since Brandon Sanderson did his Kickstarter with five secret novels he wrote during the COVID shutdown. He made something like 40 million dollars, but can anyone name a popular author right now? 

As for authors on this site using AI or utilizing AI tools, there is no policy as of yet. So when I see a story I think might have taken this too far, I won't support it simply because I think it's cheating. But I am going to stop worrying about what other authors do. That's between them and their conscience.  

 

[Lee Wilson]

2 hours ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

It's an interesting point in the genesis of creative writers. 

AI is here to stay, and has been for several years before we knew it. And the change was gradual, so now many people have no clue that most of what they read online was generated by AI. Because one person can type in random words and out pops an article, story, ad copy, or any other thing they need without employing real people. 

There are entire parts of Amazon dedicated to AI-generated content, and people are eating it up with real dollars. I predict that the next big author is going to be AI. Maybe not tomorrow or next year, but we haven't had a real author make a huge splash since Brandon Sanderson did his Kickstarter with five secret novels he wrote during the COVID shutdown. He made something like 40 million dollars, but can anyone name a popular author right now? 

As for authors on this site using AI or utilizing AI tools, there is no policy as of yet. So when I see a story I think might have taken this too far, I won't support it simply because I think it's cheating. But I am going to stop worrying about what other authors do. That's between them and their conscience.  

 

I’d like some opinions. Chapter 11 of Darren’s New Life, specifically the draftee profile starting with:

His Elite Prospects profile predicted him as a third to fifth round pick: 

Player: Darren Fernandez Higgins

 

Secondly, in Love Is Still Blind, chapter 7, beginning with:

The humid air of the YMCA crackled

And ending with:

Two hands hammer the touchpad. They whirl in the water, gasping, tearing their goggles down in one motion. They don’t look at each other.

That section was enhanced by AI, although I did make more significant changes than in Darren.

Is this too much AI? Is it obviously not all my writing? I don’t expect to use AI again, but spit happens.

[Jason Rimbaud]

9 minutes ago, Lee Wilson said:

I’d like some opinions. Chapter 11 of Darren’s New Life, specifically the draftee profile starting with:

His Elite Prospects profile predicted him as a third to fifth round pick: 

Player: Darren Fernandez Higgins

 

Secondly, in Love Is Still Blind, chapter 7, beginning with:

The humid air of the YMCA crackled

And ending with:

Two hands hammer the touchpad. They whirl in the water, gasping, tearing their goggles down in one motion. They don’t look at each other.

That section was enhanced by AI, although I did make more significant changes than in Darren.

Is this too much AI? Is it obviously not all my writing? I don’t expect to use AI again, but spit happens.

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