Abstract page for arXiv paper 2604.03136: StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction

  • Wataba@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    Find me an option that works like GDocs keeping a running history of writing and editing, and I’ll consider it.

    I have receipts for the integrity of my writing. I dont need some shitty tool to validate it.

      • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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        It tracks the edits. If you generate a whole doc in one shot then it’s obviously AI.

        If you have a shitty draft, then a slightly less shitty draft, then… … … Then a quality end product, you can see how the human worked.

        AI can’t really replicate that.

        • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
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          I only ever wrote first drafts when they were forced upon me in school. There might be some edits, but my first draft is largely what I would submit because I hated to write as a kid and didn’t want to write the same thing 3-5 times by hand before submitting it. A small benefit from being around before computers were so common was learning how to write a paragraph ahead in my mind, it would help me catch anything I was about to forget to include, or to remove a trailing thought before I wrote it out.

          • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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            I hated writing by hand, too.

            I had to write more starting in junior high (middle school). This was back in the late 70s. We had an old, non-electric typewriter at home, so, I took typing in seventh grade. For final edit, I’d cut the sheets up and use white out, and then take the taped up mess to a store with a copy machine. That’s how I got through high school English classes, too.

            Later, when I got into graphic design as a profession, I learned this was common practice, and called “paste up”.

          • bitfucker@programming.dev
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            That’s not how story writing works. Or any long form written art works for that matter. Try to ask any writer if they ever “write in their head” and publish those as a book as-is

    • zqps@sh.itjust.works
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      7 hours ago

      Some moron is gonna vibe code a script that spoofs this on the surface. Yea it’ll be detectable, but not detected in most cases.

    • commonmarmoset@reddthat.com
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      9 hours ago

      I love that docs receipt feature and agree with you. Great call.

      Forgive me being well-meaningly obnoxious, but make sure to get receipts outside of the Google ecosystem too. As a professional writer/editor myself, I’ve heard horror stories about folks losing access to an account, and therefore the receipts.

      I am also skeptical of these kinds of tools.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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        9 hours ago

        Never trust any cloud storage that you do not personally have access to cold back ups of.

        This is data storage 101!