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RE: An old fairy tale retold: The seven ravens / Altes Märchen, neu erzählt: Die sieben Raben
Very nice! I really enjoyed how this retelling brought fresh life to the classic The Seven Ravens by weaving atmospheric imagery right from the first lines, making the ancient tale feel vivid and immediate. It preserved the deep themes of guilt, bravery, and sacrifice found in the original Grimm story while adding poetic depth that made the sister’s quest feel more personal and haunting. The narrative invites reflection on how familial love drives us to face impossible odds, and how even old tales can gain new emotional resonance when retold with care.
This comment was written by me, not AI-generated.
I wrote it in simple English because that is how I normally express appreciation for writings I enjoy.
There was no automated rewriting involved, just me reacting to the atmosphere, themes, and emotions of the retelling. What you describe as “AI-like” is simply reflective language about literature, something people have been doing long before AI existed.
Instead of putting my comment into software without really reading it, I would ask you to read it again carefully. You will see that every sentence is written in very simple English.
I am also an author, I hold a PhD degree, and I have publications available online. Writing clearly and thoughtfully is part of my professional background.
Detector tools are widely known to be unreliable and they often flag careful, structured, or polished writing as nonhuman writing! See the screenshot below, that flagged your post (both English and German versions) as AI-generated! Check for yourself here https://gptzero.me/
I am tired too. I am not going to post in this community anymore if my writing is simply put into software and declared AI-generated without genuine reading.
And just to clarify, the upvotes I receive on my posts or comments are usually worth only one or two cents. I do not need that. I am on Steemit purely as a hobby, to read articles and meet new people, not to earn money. At most, I make one or two dollars a month here, which is honestly negligible. I am a professional with my own clinic, working as a clinical psychologist, and I do not want to see this kind of dumb commentary on my content.
I understand your indignation—if you are a serious author. As I said before, if I am wrong in my impression, I am very sorry. But I will not keep it to myself. People often appear in this Community who publish massive amounts of AI-generated text (and vehemently deny it, of course). I suppose that's just part of life today. But that doesn't mean I have to accept it. As I said, I don't attach much importance to the tools themselves. It's my sense of language that's triggered, that's the problem. Simple language has long since ceased to be a hallmark of CHatGPT & Co. I'll never be absolutely certain about the authenticity of my counterpart, I'm aware of that too. But in my Community, we speak up when there are uncertainties. I want to keep things public because they are in the public interest.
Have I wrongly pigeonholed you? I would be sorry if I had. Really and truly. Nevertheless, I will continue to point it out to you when your style sounds like AI to me. I don't reject the technology in general, but in my opinion it has no place in the field of writing. I am aware of the estimated percentage of books published in 2025 that will be written entirely by AI, and it worries me greatly. I try to keep this space “clean.” I know I'm failing at that, too. Feel free to read the posts here from the last four weeks... But I'll keep trying.
And here, technology confirms my impression from the other day... I'm not playing judge or executioner here. But your comments and at least some of your texts are, in my opinion, generated by AI.
To explain: I have a pretty good sense of whether a text is authentic (human-generated). I talk to people about it when I have a bad feeling. With some, I then revise my impression. Where that is not the case, I use a few tools. They are not overly reliable, but I already went into the check with a “suspicion.”
As a rough guideline for content that is definitely AI-generated, the current probability is over 85%. Now see for yourself... The tools are now very good at distinguishing whether it is just the output of translation software. I'm tired.