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Can of Worms Time: Bots and Stuff

TMax 🚫

Down the rabbit hole and a bit of shady thinking:
People have commented that votes for AI stories have increased, to the point that some are over 8....
What if the internet AI's have decided to collaborate and boost their own kind's scores.... or even just decided to spin off parts of themselves to boost their own stories?
They could be using StoriesOnline.net as a testing ground, to learn how to do it before they take over other sites....

On second thought, this user knows nothing, ignore the above....

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awnlee jawking 🚫

@TMax

People have commented that votes for AI stories have increased, to the point that some are over 8....

Some AI-enhanced stories have scored over 9. AI is adept at pushing readers' buttons.

AJ

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TMax 🚫

@awnlee jawking

Lol

Diamond Porter 🚫

@TMax

Some stories with the AI-generated tag have scores below 5.0, so they aren't upvoting every story with that tag.

The top-scoring AI-enhanced stories seem to be works where a human has been heavily involved. I imagine that those were posted by the human part of the team. Do those humans have any reason to vote for each other's AI-enhanced stories?

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TMax 🚫

@Diamond Porter

Exactly proof, the older versions of AI haven't figured the scores out yet, but the new ones, they are our friends

awnlee jawking 🚫

@Diamond Porter

The top-scoring AI-enhanced stories seem to be works where a human has been heavily involved.

For AI-generated stories there has to be a human involved, if only to issue the prompt. But IMO you're right, the top-scoring AI-enhanced stories seem to be hybrids where there's significant human-generated content as well as AI-generated content, resulting in diluted AI-content. Which is how they get past Laz's detector.

AJ

REP 🚫

@TMax

Stop and thing about what an AI is. It's a complex software program. It is not intelligent, despite what you may have read. It appears to be intellegent due to the amount of data it can access.

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TMax 🚫

@REP

Ah, but given what my sisters say about me, I'm not intelligent despite having access to the internet and massive amounts of data. Although I have never voted for any of my stories, so maybe my sisters are correct 🤔

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Michael Loucks 🚫

@TMax

Ah, but given what my sisters say about me, I'm not intelligent…

Add daughters. Same thing. Only worse. Especially ages 10–19.

Sarkasmus 🚫
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@TMax

I've been watching this trend carefully, because at least two authors I had been following have CLEARLY started using AI. And not in the good way...

Their stories suddenly fell in quality, new chapters not exceeding 200 words, and STILL getting the scene confused or forgetting about major plot-events from the previous chapter, even while being ridiculously short.

And all the while, with each chapter, the score rose significantly.

But the thing is that while the scores rose, the amount of votes flattened. Which tells me: The scores are rising because all the people who DON'T like the stories simply... stopped reading. They didn't bother leaving a bad score. They just moved on to read something else. So the only people still bothering to vote were the few who don't care about AI slop.

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