Reply To: At what point does a story count as AI written?

[Ginger Herten]

I guess I am asking on a more philosophical level, as well as a practical one.

If the sole purpose of the category is to warn readers that the story might be flat and repetitive, though rather readable since it will be typo free and utilize reasonable paragraph breaks, then my story wouldn’t count. Since I have written most of it, most of it will be my usual warm messy style, probably including a few typos that I will have looked at a dozen times and my brain just refused to see anything other than what I intended to write. (There may even be a typo or two in the AI written parts because I edited them because I didn’t manipulate chatGPT into writing exactly what I wanted, more for the sake of privacy than AI limitations. I suspect anything I ask it will influence the advertising I see.) And of course, if the category is viewed that way by most, it would be misleading to readers for me to use it.

The AI in my story is pretty much a character, it is extremely obvious in my story what parts are AI written, because of that. Not mentioning it, feels like leaving out a major element.

Of course then again, our categories are already limited. We can’t have 100 different categories. If it were practical, we should have dozens categories that cover the gray area in between “forced” and “consensual.” Like even within the singular scenario of having to get a haircut for a job, the line between forced and consensual is blurred: does the character just enjoy the job; does the character need the job to maintain the comfortable lifestyle they are used to; is the job the only one they could find and they are about to be evicted along with their elderly father who needs expensive medication not covered by insurance? So as it is, we don’t draw hard lines, we just put both tags on the story, since either can fit.