Rules for AI stories

Nu-and-the-Nus · March 17, 2025, 5:02am

If you are submitting a story to the main site and your story was assisted in any way by AI models (such as ChatGPT, etc.), please read these rules carefully. We will be particularly strict about enforcing them.

This posting will be in four sections. The sections are:

THE RULES

THE CONSEQUENCES

THE EXPLANATIONS

ADDITIONAL NOTES

THE RULES

All AI-created or AI-assisted stories must be tagged with the appropriate tag—either AI created or AI assisted—by the author. (Details on the difference between the tags can be found in the EXPLANATIONS section of this post.)
We only permit one AI story (whether created or assisted) per author per calendar month to be submitted to the queue.
If you are writing an AI-assisted series with plot-continuous chapters, you may submit a new chapter a week after your previous chapter was approved and published. But entirely new stories (or anthology-style chapters) need to follow the calendar month rule.
AI submissions will be denied if they are of exceptional length, or if they contain multiple chapters in one posting.
You must have had a site account with us for a minimum of one year in order to publish an AI story (whether AI-created or AI-assisted).
Do not manually remove an AI created or AI assisted tag that was added to your story by an admin—discuss it first with us! (It is okay, however, to switch one tag around for the other without prior discussion, so long as one of the AI tags does remain on the story.)
If the approvers team has strong reasons to believe that a story incorporates AI (whether created or assisted), they will apply the AI created tag on default. You can switch it to AI assisted yourself (see above rule), but if you believe your story should not have any AI tags at all, reach out to us via the admin inbox at admin@gaykinkystories.com to appeal. Mistakes can happen! We will be happy to look into it for you, and we apologize in advance if a tag is applied in error.

THE CONSEQUENCES

If we find that a user is intentionally flouting these rules, or trying to go around the rules—if someone consistently omits the tags, for example, or keeps submitting numerous AI stories in one day, or tries posting AI stores on alt accounts to get around the month limit—we will be strict in enforcing consequences.

Consequences may include:

losing your author privileges (either temporarily, or permanently)
having your account(s) deleted
having your IP address banned
public shaming (I’m probably joking about this one… probably)
and whatever else we may decide to throw at you

You have been warned.

We will, in most cases, consider a two-strike rule. The first strike is… okay, maybe you just didn’t know the rules, or understand them fully. It happens!

But if you do it a second time after being informed, and are clearly doing it with full knowledge and intent: then we will treat you as an intentional troll, and the consequences will match accordingly.

(And listen, if you did it fully by accident, please don’t worry. You won’t get in trouble for that. Just talk to us! So, like… If you read these rules and you do intend to abide by them, then this part of the post is not for you. )

THE EXPLANATIONS

What is the difference between AI-created and AI-assisted?

AI created is the tag for any story where the vast majority of the text was generated in response to prompts or conversations with an AI model.

So, even if you wrote all the prompts and closely guided the AI: if the text itself was written by the model, then we consider this an AI-created story.

AI assisted is the tag for hybrid human/AI stories. This can mean that some sentences or paragraphs are human-written, and other parts are AI-written. It could also refer to AI-created text that was then heavily edited and rewritten by a human, with new sentences and paragraphs introduced by the human writer. It could additionally be applied to a human-written text where portions of the text were expanded or significantly rewritten by AI.

Speaking of that last example: when describing a human text that is significantly rewritten by AI, we mean, did the AI add new sentences of its own? Did it rearrange your paragraphs in the process, or create new ones? If so, this is an AI assisted story by our site’s definitions, and it should be tagged. Use this tag even if the AI use feels minimal on your end and perhaps was only for a scene or two. It is still AI assisted and should be tagged as such.

We are currently not considering Google Translate or light uses of Grammarly to require the AI assisted tag. If you use Grammarly to lightly rearrange a sentence that you wrote, for example, or to check for grammar errors, then you don’t need to use the tag. However, if you use Grammarly to generate entirely new sentences or paragraphs from scratch for your story, then do use the AI assisted tag.

What happens if my story is tagged as AI by an admin… but it’s 0% AI?

Please reach out to us immediately if this happens. You can reach out by e-mailing the admin inbox at admin@gaykinkystories.com.

Please note, our approvers team is cautious about applying this tag to stories in the queue. If we apply this tag, it means we went through the following process:

An approver read your story and their ‘AI sense’ went off.
They then double-checked this with one of the other approvers on our team who is particularly good at spotting AI text.
The team then ran your story through two sets of AI-detectors, which we have confirmed to have a near-zero-percent ‘false positive’ rate, and those detectors flagged your story as AI too.

I will note here, as I have noted in several other places, that we do not run a story through any AI-detectors unless we go through steps 1 and 2 first.

What is a calendar month, in terms of submitting AI stories to the queue?

Pretty much, you don’t need to wait exactly 30 days. It’s more like, you can submit one AI story in April, and one AI story in May, and one AI story in June… And so on. If the first AI story is submitted April 30 and the second story is submitted May 1, that’s okay by our current rule.

Can I submit multiple AI chapters or stories to the queue at once, so long as I give them a timed publish date that spaces them out across weeks/months?

No. If more than one AI story is submitted to the queue by the same author, then all of them will be auto-denied. We will also ask you reread the rules about this if you do so.

If the author then continues to submit numerous AI stories to the queue in one go, we will assume you are trying to get around the rules on purpose, and respond with The Consequences™.

What counts as a story or chapter being of ‘exceptional length’?

I’m leaving this part ambiguous on purpose because, genuinely, I don’t have a hard number for this. It will depend on what people end up submitting to us regularly.

The problem is, I feel that if I say “10k words or more is exceptional length” then we will get a lot of AI stories that are exactly 9,999 words long. And I’m not okay with that either.

Let’s put it this way:

Approvers read every story you submit.

We have had people drop really long, low-effort AI-generated stories into the queue (which, in one case, the author themselves admitted they had not bothered to fully read before submitting to us). Those stories are often circular and repetitive and full of padding and continuity errors. And also, again, very very long.

It feels like a slap in the face to be expected to read and approve a 10k+ wall of meandering text that the person themselves did not bother to read either before dumping on us.

We will deny these stories, going forward.

On the other hand, if you are an author who worked hard on an AI-assisted story, and the story is well-crafted and well-shaped based on the work that you put into it: we will probably be okay with it being on the longer end.

So, in summary, if the reading experience is very ‘unedited low-effort AI’, and the text is very long too, we will deny it.

And yes, we will deny AI stories that have multiple chapters in a single story submission. These will need to be broken up into their separate chapters, and submitted as such per the monthly/weekly limit. This, too, will be a rule that we will only remind you about once.

I have additional questions, and I didn’t find the answer explained here!

Please e-mail us at admin@gaykinkystories.com with your question! We are happy to answer questions and to clarify this policy, and we may even update this EXPLANATIONS section to include your question (and our answer) too.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

We are trying out these new rules to see how they fit!

We may adjust them if they prove inadequate to their intended purpose, or if they stop being helpful over time as AI models develop further. This post may also be edited for clarity as needed, even if the rules remain unchanged.

Approvers may miss AI stories that violate these rules. We may accidentally approve those AI stories anyways. Do not lash out at the approvers if we do so by accident. We are a team of volunteers doing this in our spare time, and we don’t always catch everything. Please e-mail us at the admin inbox (admin@gaykinkystories.com) if you feel that there is an AI story on the site’s front page that is breaking our rules, and we will look into it.

If an approver accidentally publishes a story that violates our AI rules, it also doesn’t mean that it was okay for the author to violate the rule in the first place. There may be consequences down the line if we catch it after the fact.

In March 2025, we did a poll of all site readers to see how people felt about AI stories being present on the site at all. The vast majority (66%) indicated that they did not want the site archive to host any AI whatsoever—not even with tags.

Right now we are testing out a compromise where we do not ban AI stories flat-out, but permit them so long as they follow the rules designed for them. We are interested to see if there can be room for AI stories on this site if they are present in moderation. We have designed the current rules around this principle. Keep in mind these rules are not simply to restrict AI authors; they are also about making a space on the site where AI stories can live without destroying the entire ecosystem they are trying to be a part of.

So if you are an author who works with AI, these rules are absolutely in your interest too.

This site is primarily an archive for erotica authors to share work that they have written themselves. We do not, for example, permit authors to post work by other writers. We also do not permit authors to even post anonymous work that is officially authorless (we had one such case recently). If an author did not actually write the work themselves, we generally don’t allow it to be posted here.

In theory, we have a precedent by which we could ban all AI work. At the moment we are choosing not to take this all-or-nothing approach. Personally I worry it is too reductive, and that it doesn’t allow room for experimentation with hybrid stories—but most importantly, I think it would be difficult and extremely time-intensive to enforce a total ban in practice.

For now, we are trying out a compromise, and are doing so primarily for pragmatic reasons.

This is a site maintained by daily volunteer effort. Our volunteer team signed up to help run a website where erotica authors share their own writing, and where there is a robust author/reader community. Thanks to the cumulative hard work of Corin and our volunteer team over the years, this small niche kink site has become among the best-designed and best-managed sites for erotica on the internet.

None of us who are currently doing this, however, signed up to manage, instead, an abandoned digital warehouse of endless reams of low-effort AI text, with occasional glimmers of non-AI work sprinkled in between.

I would rather step down fully from this site than watch it turn into that—and with the vast amount of low-effort unedited AI that authors have submitted recently (one author dropped 29 unedited low-effort AI stories on us this weekend alone), that was the direction we were rapidly hurtling towards.

And that is why we now have these new rules.

We will be strict about enforcing these rules.

If we find it necessary, we may make the rules stricter. I really, really hope we won’t need to do that. I would like to try out a version of the site that can make a bit of space for this, without it crowding out our human authors.

So consider these rules as a trial run as we navigate this new era—let’s see how it goes!

This post was most recently edited on: March 17 2025