Does Literotica Have An Official Policy on Publishing Work Generated by Artificial Intelligence?

Literotica does not currently have an official comprehensive policy on Artificial Intelligence (AI). We are waiting to see how this technology develops, and getting feedback from our community, before creating any comprehensive AI policy. However, we have put together the following points on where AI fits into Literotica at this time.

Literotica is a storytelling community based around the publishing of human adult fantasies. While AI tools - spellcheck, grammar tools, autocomplete, etc. - have long been used to help Literotica authors write their stories, the fantasies themselves come from the creative efforts, experiences, and fantasies of the real people who make up the Literotica community. As writing tools continue to evolve, we do not foresee a future where machine fantasies will replace the real experiences and creative efforts of Literotica’s community of human authors.
Literotica explicitly does NOT grant any person or entity (commercial, non-profit, or other) the legal right to train AI on any works published on Literotica. Each work published on Literotica is copyrighted by the author. Before using any work on Literotica for any purpose (including training AI or any other AI-related use) you are required by law to contact the author to request permission to use that work. Using works on Literotica for training AI without legal authorization may subject you and your AI (and any work generated by your AI) to future lawsuits from the original author(s), Literotica, or both.
We are monitoring the various ethical concerns around AI tools (some of which we have been contacted about directly from members of the Literotica Community). We plan to continue closely watching the development of AI, along with the development of public policies around AI, before creating our own official policies.
Literotica’s Publishing Guidelines are clear - you must certify that you are the author of AND you own the copyright to any work published on Literotica. While simple AI tools (spelling and grammar tools, for example) do not usually interfere with an author’s copyright, there are unanswered questions around copyright when using some of the latest AI technologies that generate large blocks of text. If there are any questions about copyright related to any work you’ve used AI tools to help you create, we ask that you research and be 100% sure you own the full rights to the work before attempting to publish the work on Literotica. If you publish a work on Literotica to which you do not fully own the copyright, it may open you up to future legal repercussions.
Literotica’s own use of AI is currently limited to improving the way we recommend related works to readers.

What is Considered an AI Generated Story at Literotica?

With the proliferation of “smart” writing software and spelling/grammar apps in the last few years, questions arise about whether a story using these tools should be considered AI generated or human written. If blocks of text are being generated by a machine, that’s clearly AI writing. If software helps correct spelling and grammar in text that a human author has written, that’s probably not an AI generated story.

One area of particular concern is software or apps that “rewrite” your paragraphs or stories for you. The text that results from rewriting features is definitely AI generated. These type of apps are replacing original human written text with generic AI generated text, and should be avoided when submitting work to Literotica. Readers prefer to experience your worlds and your fantasies in your own unique voice, rather than having them smoothed into a generic artificial voice available to everyone else using the same software.

If you have questions, suggestions, or comments about Artificial Intelligence and how it might impact the future of writing, we recommend that you visit the Literotica Author Support Forum to discuss the issue with other published Literotica Authors.