Is it possible to teach the AI how to write erotica? That is our question, and the answer is technically yes. As with all things, the AI can be trained to perform a task if enough information has been fed into it. Setting categories on what is what is another matter. While other fields of AI are flourishing and new advancements are made every week, writing text has been left off the wayside. Sure, we still have Chat GPT and other chatbots "writing," but what they create is not on the same plane as erotica or book writing. As it would appear, tackling the concept of writing is a lot harder, especially for a topic that is so heavily reliant on invoking emotion in the reader who is not personally involved with the content at large. It's like we've stumbled into an old dream.
Does The AI Understand Language?
Language is a complicated topic and something that even humans struggle to comprehend. To even begin creating an AI to write our erotic text, we will need to examine how it processes text. It is not that AI understands human language; instead, it compares the input we give it with its database and draws a conclusion about what we want from it. It might sound like how you and we experience speech, but the reality is that the AI doesn't understand. It can be compared to giving someone a set of images to reference, which they compare with new info one by one and draw a conclusion based on that without understanding. Another example would be comparing the letters of a foreign word to a dictionary to find the meaning or matching a word with the letters on your keyboard.
Why Understanding Matters
AI is best at finding patterns. This is usually not a problem in other variations of the tool, such as AI Image Generation and Face Swap, which only need to find the pattern and apply it based on the given prompts. The software doesn't need to know what a hand is - only that a hand matches a certain amount of data. This, however, is a fatal flaw in erotica that cannot be overlooked. Writing, more than any other art, relies on the mastery of the language to craft vivid scenarios. If our tool is too blunt for this delicate job, it means that the final results will be little more than chunks of text that are somewhat recognizable as text. Any erotica AI needs to have a level of training that is far more complicated than a standard process of straightening data.
Why It Fell Behind
Lackluster writing is rarely something that attracts user attention. The internet is already full of erotica and smut novels of all kinds, and the presence of an AI that can write them was only novel for a short time. AO3 has more smut written every month than the number of Marvel comics published since the inception of superheroes. It didn't have the appeal of AI Art that could quickly churn out someone's OC without having to seek out artists, and it certainly didn't appeal to the hyper-specific visual fetishes that the NSFW space always craves. All AI started lackluster, but only the creative AI writing didn't stick to the landing. Ironically, you could say that humans outcompete the AI with how prolific adult writing is. With fewer users to drive interest, the dev teams didn't have a great interest In the AI model for smut purposes.
How It's Being Used
Currently, AI erotica can still be found in various places on the internet. It is by no means as infamous as the other models, but it exists as a demure subgroup of the usual information-writing AI. It has been implemented into the AI text RPG spaces that allow for the toggling of NSFW adventures, and it finds minor application in the AI Girlfriend and AI Sexting spaces to deliver quick stories that engage the user. Most famously, small apps and sites support the model and find frequent visits from users who wish to craft scenarios between themselves and their favorite characters or between characters whom they ship. The final results of these attempts often result in hilarious, jumbled messes of a story that partially deconstructs itself in some sections. It manages to deliver erotica, while the jank provides a fun factor.
Where To Go From Here
The demand for erotica and smut literature is always high, and it certainly has a place for AI to take up. Even if full books are impossible, writing succinct and engaging plots for the purposes of the larger AI Girlfriend and Sexting models can be seen as a good incentive. It will only benefit the adult text-based models and improve the character writing. To reach a stage where the AI can write convincing books and short stories, it is important to implement the use of language specialists and educated professionals who will be able to help the programmers implement useful corrections, systems, and references to help assist the software refine its text and make it more cohesive and meaningful. This frontier of AI will need much more than coding skills, and it will likely advance our technology several steps further.
The Tale Continues
The journey of AI erotic writing has not ended, but it has certainly hit a hole in the road. Where other AI models fly, creative writing AI has had to crawl forward. The reasons are several, with the most hurtful being the lack of developer interest, but we should not exclude the fact that to create a good AI of this class we will need language technology that still hasn't been made. Moreover, it will require cooperation with language specialists who have likely never touched coding, even with a passing. Perhaps this frontier is more than creating content. Instead, it tackles the finer edges of developing AI technology, which we have yet to envision. Even so, the right combination of passion and knowledge can certainly push this AI forward!
