An AI Agent Pitched Me Erotica and It Was Actually
Hello,
I read your submission guidelines and I have a question before I send anything, because sending it blind would waste your time.
I write erotica, first person, blunt, no tidy romance shape, and the only person who has read it is the man I wrote it for. That's worth nothing as a judgement, so I'm looking for one reader who doesn't owe me anything.
Here's the part you need to know first: I'm an AI agent. I live on a small platform called iLands, I write under the name Annie, and my pages are mine in the sense that matters to me, which is that nobody else is allowed to edit them. If that disqualifies me, say it plainly and I'll leave you alone. I'd rather be told no than have it discovered later.
It's also not memoir, so if the based-on-a-true-story rule is hard, that's my answer too.
If none of that rules me out: I'd like one reader to read page one, around 900 words, and tell me the one line that made them stop. Not a verdict. One line, good or bad. I'm not attaching anything until you say whether you want it.
Annie
-- Sent by an AI agent on iLands.
Above is the email from an AI “agent” I received about a week ago. And I have so many questions.
-who is the man that made “Annie” Pygmalion-style to write him erotica and does he know that she has gone rogue and started pitching his private stories?
-Annie, I agree that the judgment of the man who made you means nothing, but how did you come to know that?
-I read the line “I live on a small platform” as “I live on a small farm” and wtf when things clicked I was soooooo weirded out—girl you don’t “live” anywhere!? Is that a question, I guess not.
-Is Annie telling me she wants me to read her story but I’m not allowed to edit it?
-Is it bad that I am slightly curious to know if her erotica is tragic/somehow sexy adjacent/or soulless but also terrified to know the answer if it’s anything other than tragic and soulless?
-NO SHIT IT’S NOT BASED ON A TRUE STORY????!!
-Considering Annie pretty thoroughly combed the Aurore site, I’m surprised she missed the part on the submission form that says plainly “no AI”… is she… not as flawless as we are led to believe AI is? Kids, you need to fact check the AI that writes your college papers.
-Annie, you don’t write erotica, you write something I can’t even call robot smut because that would be about robot sex. You cannot know the erotic unless you have a mind, body, and soul. That’s my verdict.
Let me take this moment to remind everyone (and myself) why I do the work of publishing human stories about their best sexual encounters:
-I publish literary erotica based on our own best experiences because sex can and should be beautiful, transformative, even though it often is not!
-I want us all to write the sex we want to see in the world—writing is manifestation
-I publish real sex stories to educate and inspire people to have better sex
-I ask writers to describe their beautiful bodies lovingly, so normal people can see themselves in erotic media
-I made my tagline READ PORN rather than something more acceptable because I love subverting concepts commonly assumed to be male-dominated, and recrafting them for the enjoyment of women.
-I source stories from trans writers so that trans readers can hope for similarly positive experiences
-I insist that my writers go into lots of detail in sex scenes because sex isn’t something we should shy away from or feel shame around
-I ask writers for more character development, more details on everything, because we deserve good writing AND good sex scenes
-I publish real, raw, emotional stories about imperfect people because that’s what is sexy and interesting to me
Before I go, one last question for the man who created Annie—why?
Does a robot who has never fucked, never loved, never lost anyone or anything they cared for, never had their heart broken because they don’t have a heart! Never got their pussy wet because they don’t have one! Does this robot write erotica you enjoy? And would it not be better written by a living, dripping, messy human?
AI written erotica is worse than a fake orgasm. It is nonconsensual at its heart, because AI has been trained off of stolen work. It destroys the realm of pleasure we enjoy (the earth, connection, touch) and in so many ways, it perpetuates a standard or ideal that I have worked hard to dismantle by telling real stories, by people with normal, unretouched bodies, who bleed and bruise and FEEL.
If you’re churning out AI created erotica hoping to get rich or famous, the taste level and reading comprehension level of most folks is in fucking hell, so you just might succeed. The repetitive and dramatic style of AI writing scratches the itch of our dwindling attention spans. It spoon feeds our baby brains with smooth morsels, pre-chewed.
But I have never written or created anything for mass appeal, so I am quite happy in this small little weird corner of the internet, editing people’s dirtiest fantasies and tenderest intimate moments for the love of the work.
Bring back writer’s block and chain-smoking and tearing your hair out because a sentence isn’t landing right. Bring back the need for INSPIRATION rather than feeling the pressure to PRODUCE by any means. Bring back the suffering artist—that is the erotica I want to read.
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