Reflections on writing erotica with AI

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After attempting to write porn with AI (The Biohazard Brand), I have a few thoughts that some may find interesting. 

But first, thanks,p to all you guys who read my AI experiment. A special thanks for some incredible feedback that @versmetropig sent me. After working for a couple of hours with the AI, I finally posted a revised version of Chapter 6.  I’m sure it’s better but still not very good. I would like to have revised the entire story, but frankly it would be easier to write an entirely different story. I hope to do that in the future, but certainly not now. I doubt that you guys have the patience for that. And I absolutely don’t.

If anyone wants to try your hand at writing erotic fiction with an AI, I recommend giving Venice.ai a whirl. Not once has it balked at any content I’ve asked for. As far as I can tell it’s completely uncensored. That being said, it’s not easy. I learned in 7th grade that I can’t write fiction. Nothing has changed since then. I can write non-fiction well, but I when I do, I’m incredibly slow with it. (The perils of perfectionism!).  I might be able to write a good porn story with AI. But that, too, would be incredibly tedious. Writing a first draft is a breeze. And that’s essentially what The Bareback Brand is. 

I worked on revising two chapters with the AI. I probably spent four hours trying to train the AI. A good hour of that was trying to teach it to write about chemsex. Which is laughable since I’ve never experienced that myself. (The story did result in a couple of offers though. 🤓 🤫 🤔)

I wouldn’t actually mind spending a lot of hours (or days) training the AI. The problem is that Venice.ai clearly wasn’t trained to write gay chemsex erotica, and it doesn’t retain any memory that users provide — nor should it. Venice.ai just learns for a session as long as you don’t close the browser. I uploaded a lot of examples of writing about sex (especially from @versmetropig’s blog). I also uploaded some sample chapters of good porn stories. It helped. But at some point Venice.ai got confused. It was getting better at the descriptive and sometimes emotional aspects of sex acts and chemsex. But then it got very confused with other parts of writing. It confused characters with each other and then one revision of a chapter focused almost entirely on the character of Mark. Fine. Unfortunately there was no character named Mark in the story.

Long story short, if you write good porn, you’ll find the whole experience frustrating. 

I doubt if anyone really got off by reading any of the story — even chapter 6 (Redux) — the one revised chapter that I finally posted. I know it never got me close to cumming. And poppers didn’t help. 

I tried creating photos of the characters. Unlike the unfiltered writing that Venice.ai produced, don’t even bother trying to get it to create images  it was hard to get it to even allow a pic of a grown man without a shirt on. And when I tried to create a photo of an 18-year-old wrestling champion, it gave me a very cute headshot of an 11-year-old. Then it created two hot wrestling coaches. I asked for it to give me the photo on the right but with blond hair, it gave me the photo of the Hispanic coach on the left with bleach blond hair.

it was a long afternoon. The AI didn’t learn much, but I guess I did. Someday, I might attempt another AI story. But it won’t be anytime soon and I’d probably not do a chemsex story.

For the few people who stuck with the story through chapter 10, thanks for joining my experiment  And a special thanks to those of you who threw me some mercy fucks, , err, I mean reactions. Seeing the message that I won the day was nice, but I feel like it was a cheap way to do it.

So thanks for reading. Hopefully, someday I’ll produce some content of some kind that can actually interest the community. 

OH, I DID DISCOVER SOMETHING WONDERFUL TODAY. If you haven’t feasted your eyes on Pietro Boselli and read his bio, you MUST. A true renaissance man. I don’t know how one person can accomplish so:much in such a short time. (Well, certainly Michelangelo did, but he wasn’t as hot.) He’s on Facebook, Instagram, and even onlyfans. (There’s a new article about him on Instinct magazine.) Then check out his bio and gallery at Pietro Boselli.com. You can thank me later. And now I need to update my choice of which celebrity I’d like to slam with.  
 

Ciao!

jim

[twstdpigboy]

Enjoyed the trajectory of the story and the higher plot points but one criticism of most ai generated prose is the “voice”  comes across as flat and almost clinical in its delivery. That lifelessness gets exacerbated by some of the awkward phasing and/or word choice which in turn highlights a clear lack general understanding of subject matter. Nuanced use of subject specific vernacular language; even in how the most common place word given the context of the situation can be reflected in a particular instance can take on new shades and depths of meaning.

A human author even one without experiential knowledge or background in chemsex or bareback sex as fetish or even in gay kink culture would or could spot awkward phrasing and be prompted to look more deeply into why is wasn’t resonating. The data sets any these AI platforms use will never understand that subculture is a thing and that to write or depict a scene with any authenticity requires either direct knowledge or damn good reference material and an ability to set whatever bias they come to the typewriter or keyboard with and start fresh from where they think they may need to be only to  realize that nope they need start back to even more basic entry level understanding in order to bring life into a scene. 
 

Some of the hottest and most “authentic” published gay erotica I’ve read has comes from the open minds of straight women. Mind you the they might be challenged by chemsex culture but they definitely have a handle on depictions of heavy hard core BDSM sexual expression within old guard Master/slave relationships. I somehow doubt that that nuanced understanding came from hands on experience (and if it did then suburban straight housewives need to be shown much more respect than we ever expected).

As with all new tools we need to understand what they are good at doing and where the hype around them fails and where those blind spots can lead. Even a good data set will always return garbage when queried by badly written code or the biased assumptions built into the latest generative Artificial “Intelligence”.

Also humans (and probably hominids) have been storytelling for hundreds of thousands of years. It’s goings to take more that the collected published works of our species and rudimentary grammatical theory of one of our many languages for a machine to write anything convincingly derivative let alone authentically novel.

Any text output from the current AI offerings are best used in the production of detailed story outlines (as I stated from the beginning) the overall trajectory of the story was great as were the high points in the narrative … a detailed outline for your story from Venice.AI would have given you that at a minimum. 

 

 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by twstdpigboy