Create an "AI Generated" or "AI Human Written" or "AI Novel" tag.

[Mortrexo]

Many people have been trying this new technology, which is not inherently wrong. However, at least people should know if what they are reading is created by an AI and a human or just a human.
This can not only warn or attract readers interested in the subject, but it can slowly create a community around it. As scribble hub is mainly driven by popularity, views, and rating, even if millions of such novels appear, they won't interrupt or bother with normal novels as people would have it easy to navigate between novels.
It will be just as if a new genre appeared.

P.S. I'm not saying it is wrong, more complicated, or easier to create novels with AI generation. But it's certainly not traditional writing and should be categorized separately, like images created by AI or anything else.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Won't it contradict SH content guidelines?

Prohibited Content​

AI Generated Stories - Stories created mostly by AI will be rejected. You can use AI to help create your stories but most of the story should still be written by you.

 

[Corty]

I'll say it for you (as it is in the rules)

Using AI to write a story and then posting it as yours is bad. Why? We all know why:

Greed.

With AI, you can churn out chapters like crazy, then put up a Patreon and hide 30-40-100 chapters behind it as advanced chapters with little to no effort whatsoever just to try and get people to sign up for it. We already have countless stories that are posted, garner no attention, and then are abandoned after 10-20-30 or more chapters in. With AI, it could be made into 50 chapters easily, then "Oh, this one doesn't get readers, okay, let's do another story and pump out another 50 chapters; maybe that will get some eyes and people to buy in." A flood like that would kill the site, as I guess many people would simply leave and never come back if it is flooded with 50 AI stories popping up every day.

Now, of course, quality will be what it is, but when did that ever stop someone? Why do scam emails still work?

AI is a good tool if you struggle with ideas or, in a sudden slump, are looking for inspiration, looking for grammar mistakes, synonyms, etc. Juggling ideas with it can be productive, for sure. But lifting out stories directly from AI and transforming it only just the bare minimum (or not rewriting it with your own style at all) and just posting it is bad. Extremely bad. I am glad it is prohibited content.

Ergo, we don't need an AI tag, as we don't need AI novels. If you can't write a story by yourself, don't even try to be a writer.

Edit:

For those who want to use AI as a crutch, sure. But I would instead try writing a fanfic. In there, you have a set world; you don't need to come up with many things, rules, and background information, and you can just focus on story development and character interactions. A good place to start out and develop your own style. If you only rely on AI to write it for you, you will never improve.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

For those who want to use AI as a crutch, sure. But I would instead try writing a fanfic. In there, you have a set world; you don't need to come up with many things, rules, and background information, and you can just focus on story development and character interactions. A good place to start out and develop your own style. If you only rely on AI to write it for you, you will never improve.

I want to use AI to finish writing my fanfic because my kid won't let me write anymore. However, I don't think AI is quite up to the task just yet. Maybe in a few more years, I can just let it do its thing and enjoy reading what it writes.

 

[Corty]

@K5Rakitan Also, anything that an AI generates, as of today's laws and precedents, is not owned by you. Even if you type the prompts, it is public domain.

The U.S. Copyright Office said that art created by A.I. tools would not receive copyright protections

So any AI novel is fair game for stealing.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

@K5Rakitan Also, anything that an AI generates, as of today's laws and precedents, is not owned by you. Even if you type the prompts, it is public domain.



So any AI novel is fair game for stealing.

Can't make money on fanfiction anyway, so I don't mind if people steal it.

 

[Mortrexo]

Won't it contradict SH content guidelines?

Prohibited Content​

AI Generated Stories - Stories created mostly by AI will be rejected. You can use AI to help create your stories but most of the story should still be written by you.

Didn't know this, lol. "AI-assisted" can also be a tag. However, I get the gist of it, it's not a good idea. Moreover, the extra laws the other commentators placed opened my eyes.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Didn't know this, lol. However, it says that you can use it as an assistance, so I don't think it contradicts my first thoughts. "AI assisted" can also be a tag.

I'm not sure people need a separate AI assisted tag, but I'm not against it either. Anyway, new tags are rarely added(if ever) unless there is a really huge demand.

 

[KrakenRiderEmma]

I have a lot of AI writing on this site, possibly more than anyone except for people who aren’t openly revealing they’re doing it. The other really long AI series was deleted by the author, who was using a second account to post it. So it’s an important issue to me. I find the “assistance” of AI tools pretty useful for reasons of time, almost never getting stuck (except in areas that the AI is bad at) and so forth. It still does take plenty of work to edit and improve the quality of AI writing, but it still saves time — I am better at editing than first-drafting — and I’m happy with the quality. I don’t have any interest in saving time by writing fanfic. I already got the method I use, which is more than 50% human, approved by Tony as fitting the rules of the site.

Here are my thoughts about the feature request: sure, it’s a good idea, although I think it’s better as a content warning. “AI-Human Written” or “AI Assisted” makes sense since any story that’s more than 50% AI-generated is not allowed on the site anyway. This is easy for me to say, since I put the same thing in the description of all my series, and it saves room in my descriptions to have a tag or content warning! I don’t really want anyone not realizing it’s AI-assisted and getting upset, and so far this hasn’t happened.

However, I don’t know how many people will use that tag or content warning. Some people are using AI on this site and not mentioning it, right. Besides, what counts? If you use it as a brainstorming tool to come up with plot ideas, is that AI Assisted? How about having a tool like Grammarly or Quillbot rewrite some sentences? Many sentences?

I understand why some people wouldn’t use this tag, because some AI writing is very hard to detect, especially if edited. Because I do make it clear that I use AI tools, I do get comments from people who say “I could tell this was AI-written.” Sometimes they’re wrong, I’ve gotten that comment about chapters or quotes that were 100% written by human, LOL. Sometimes awkward or stilted writing is the human’s fault! So, by using a tag you’re going to activate people’s preconceptions and ideas of how AI writing works. Everyone thinks that all AI tools work like ChatGPT, for instance — you just put in a prompt like “write an isekai story about Mineta from MHA but gender-swapped” and it pops out a bunch of paragraphs. That’s just the simplest, low-effort, and usually poor-quality (samey) way of using AI.

As for copyright, the US Copyright Office made it clear that anything a human adds to an AI-created work is copyrighted, but the AI-created parts are not. My works, for instance, mix the two together. Most AI sentences have at least a bit human interference and are interspersed with human-written sentences… so it would be hard for anyone to only identify or pull out the “un-copyrighted parts” to use in the public domain. (I have the record of which is which, but it’s only readable in the original writing tool.)