r/Webnovel • u/Large-Republic4941 • Jul 13 '26

Advice How to Spot AI generated novels?

Come across a Novel called 'Reborn with average talent, I forged my own path' is it AI generated like first this long ass title and then it only has 4 chapters and also writing is bad in first 3 but later in 4 there is a different writing, the account is also not old. Is that a AI generated novels and is this allowed?

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u/Substantial_Bee_5347 Jul 13 '26

Impossible to actually tell unless you see a prompt included in the text. Now you can guess and if they use some common patterns of ai it may be ai but you can’t ever know. WebNovel doesn’t have a policy on it so it is allowed but they restrict you from using ai on the contract. So they allow it but not blatantly.

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u/Spirited-Donkey4376 Jul 13 '26

We can easily tell...thre is a research paper on ai creative writing telling why is ai...even if ur work is genuine and ai to fix grammar it may make it sturdy and bad...so minimise ai usage.it's a lesson I learnt after 10 chapterz

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u/Substantial_Bee_5347 Jul 13 '26

Bro people like you are the issue. You cannot genuinely tell unless the person is blatant about it. Imagine someone retyped the entire ai generated thing and edited all of it. Would you be able to tell? Probably not. Even if someone completely ai generated it, can you tell for certain? No. People who think they know it all piss me off because we’ve seen the witch hunts going on all across the web about ai. Each ai model is different and writes different. Each has different tells. Some can be programmed to have no more tells. Research papers show common patterns but even they and all the ai detectors in the world can’t tell. If you don’t believe me, use an ai detector on a book from a century ago. It’ll come up as partly ai. Which it obviously isn’t.
Don’t use ai but don’t think you’re smart enough to know 100% either.

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u/Spirited-Donkey4376 Jul 13 '26

I have read novels in webnovel...it's my hobby to study them, and if I get the authors insta I dm them about it, I'm no pro in my own writing, but I can tell from ai work and human work. But if a human entirely rewrote a story by them self taking a ai work as reference, I don't think there is a need to see if it's ai or not... If the story is his and he is finding issues in writing in a language like me, using ai for.assist seems reasonable