I was looking through my email and saw that someone had untagged one of my stories (Vanilla, CA) as ‘ai-created’ on Sunday, and then retagged it as the same thing. I don’t think it’s a problem in this case, but it set me thinking – what if someone untagged my ai-assisted stories.
I’m trying to play well within the spirit of the new rules around AI tagging or stories, and obviously new stories should be tagged correctly, but I’d hate for someone to come along and untag it in a way that hid how I created it.
I’ve also been watching the state of art and writing online, and have noticed a lot of people claiming that things are AI, oftentimes incorrectly. I’d also hate for someone to tag a story as ai-assisted or ai-created without actually knowing that.
Would it be possible to make the ai related tags only editable by the author or the site admins?
I do think that authors need to be able to re-tag their stories. I should actually re-tag most of my ‘ai-created’ stories as ‘ai-assisted’, since I tagged them years ago before the current policy was developed.
My goal in this request is to reduce the possibility of mis-tagging by third parties who don’t really know if a work was ai-assisted or not.
As AI tags are so sensitive, I’ve added a mechanism that sends a separate notification to the admins when an AI tag is added to or removed from a story.
So if it happened after the story has been published and obviously not in good faith, the idea is that we can step in.
When did that change you’ve mentioned happened?
Now that I think of it, there were no notification mails in the admins inbox. There might be something wrong there, which is why we might have missed this.
Adding a feature that makes it impossible for any user to alter AI flags is also something I’d take into consideration.
The emails came in on Sunday at 10:12 and 10:15 AM Pacific. Please let me know if you’d like me to DM you the username who changed the tags, I don’t feel right posting it when it’s not generally publicly disclosed.
I think admins getting a notification is a reasonable stopgap, but given that the primary justification given by admins for the new AI rules is approval workload, I’m loathe to rely on admins to provide yet-another-manual-check.
If it’s easier to implement to say ‘no non-admins can alter the AI tags’, that seems reasonable. I’d just end up having to email admin to get a few tags updated.
I’m sorry, because I have already turned on the setting to filter AI, but your story still appears. I thought that if I turned on the filter, I wouldn’t be able to see the AI-crated stories. So I thought it was a bug and tried to “correct” it. Later I found out that it was indeed an AI-created story, so I added it back.
I’m sorry for the inconvenience caused to you.
I was the bug in the end.
It’s me, sorry.
But this brings me to another question, why do I still see stories with the AI-created tag after I turn on the filter? It’s quite strange even if the tag turns red color.
In what situations do you see stories with blocked tags? In general, they shouldn’t appear, but there are a few exceptions. Like the stories listed on a user’s profile.
Because it’s been a week, I’m not sure what the situation was like. I was probably searching for stories using keywords, and it was not long after the hack ended. I saw a whole row of and was shocked.
I have never seen appear before.
That’s probably because you weren’t logged on when you were searching.
That would automatically engage the so-called “safe-mode” where stories containing certain tags (like “incest”) are still listed, but you cannot read them fully. They are then marked with that symbol.
Only logged in users can disable the safe-mode (and that’s also the default for them).
But I can change the tag when not logged in?
It was only when I jumped to ggthe series list and discovered that every article was AI that I realized something was wrong.
Probably an unknown bug. At least I haven’t seen after that.
The search function shouldn’t list blocked stories. But it IS a kind of problematic thing, as the search engine sometimes doesn’t honor all the restrictions I feed it with.
So I wouldn’t absolutely dismiss the possibility that it would list a story even though it shouldn’t due to blocked tags.
However, there’s not much I can do about it…
If you see an example, with a given search input which leads to blocked tags to be listed, please forward it to me and I’ll try to figure out what’s happening!
and was shocked.