[TheInvisibleMan]

The easiest way is to upload images to any image hosting service and insert the code provided for websites into the story’s code. It’s useful to add style=”max-width: 100%; height: auto;” to the markup, as this makes the image adapt to the width of the window, which is especially convenient when reading on a smartphone screen.

Some people upload images directly to this site’s hosting service. I haven’t found a quick way to do that, but moderators complain that images overload the site, so this method is probably discouraged.

[TheInvisibleMan]

I’ve already done all the experiments on text analysis, and honestly, the results make me pretty sad.

The prompt that can already write stories on its own — connecting the narrative structure for this site — already exists.

Your point about story length probably suggests that my example about character arcs and development was too narrow.

“For sale, baby shoes, never worn.” (that’s the entire text) — is a story.

But a disconnected conveyor belt of haircut scenes stretched across 10–15 thousand words may be a HairStory, yet not really a story.

[TheInvisibleMan]

Sorry.
I’m used to the idea that in a discussion, you can reply not only to the original poster’s question but also to individual comments. I guess I may have been wrong.

In some of my stories, I don’t use AI until the proofreading, formatting, and translation stages. The last one, of course, has a major impact on the text, so I’m not sure whether that would count as not using AI.

[TheInvisibleMan]

Perhaps this message is meant for me?

I do get paid something, but I consider the amounts symbolic. What interests me more is the quality of the product, which may well be paid.

As both a reader and an author, I honestly don’t care who wrote something or how it was written.

Yesterday I was describing a musical number through the rhythm of language — AI simply can’t do that yet. Though with a clear task in translation, I hope it managed fine.

And today, without touching the text at all, I’m only telling the AI the plot and what exactly needs to be rewritten and how, and I’m satisfied with the result — although writing it myself would probably have been faster.

A graphomaniac with AI is, of course, worse than a graphomaniac with a keyboard — they can generate garbage much faster — but the problem isn’t the AI.

[TheInvisibleMan]

There is no AI problem — there is a bad writing problem.

My stories wouldn’t exist without AI — at the very least, I use it to translate them into English, and in general, I try to make things better with its help. AI can write some things very well on its own, but it struggles with more complex aspects like plot or subtle stylistic choices. But readers don’t really need that. That’s not a criticism, just a statement of reality. The reader came for quick gratification. They want a fetish trigger, not a plot. Even very bad AI is good enough for that.

A subscriber who recently supported me on Patreon praised an AI slop story with no plot, no logic, stretched over tens of thousands of words, but packed with fetish triggers from the very first line. I couldn’t even finish reading that “story” myself and fed it to ChatGPT. The AI complained that it found such awful generations unpleasant to read.

At first, I honestly tagged everything with “AI,” but now I’ll probably remove that tag everywhere.

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