The overwhelming proliferation of readlang story bot texts is flooding out genuine, human written texts and essays. I do recognize the Readlang story bot as a temporary crutch, a temporary aid for beginners and intermediate students. It is a useful tool when starting out. While the readbot does quickly provide a text of interest at a level desired by the creator with a limited word count, it is no subsitute for the nuanced writing of humans with our unique styles and manners of talking and writing. After reading several readbot stories, it becomes mind-numbling boring. There is no soul or inspiration behind the story. No voice. No personality. It sounds like every crap essay uploaded by students to their professors using some AI bot. Heck, this plea is obviously human written. No AI has this passion, and it´s use of punctuation and grammar is much better. This diatribe is too wordy, but I don´t care. Heck, I can’t even type well. I am not some professional editor using bland or faddish corporate words or jargon or some other crap when writing this, which is what bot-generated texts sound like. So, imagine my constant disappointment when I go to find a good text that that some other human student has found interesting and decided to share, but I it very dificult to find because there are hundeds of uploads of boring bot written drivel that sound like some artificial flowery description on the back of a cheap wine bottle or a false description of some house property. I have pretty much stopped using the uploaded public text tab. Which is quite a loss for me. I like seeing what other students have encountered and found interested. I am learning Spanish, and I greatly enjoy finding uploaded public texts from news, essays, etc written by humans that have a genuine point of view, a distinct manner of speaking, with all of a humans flaws ,etc. So, for all my complaining and whining, there is a simple solution. Whenever somebody generates a readland story bot text, please put it under its own separate tab, and limit public texts loads to those created by humans. Also, please include a new check box when uploading a text to say “Generated by an AI” so other texts created by ChatGPT, Perplexity, whatever, also will go under the AI Bot list of texts.
Lastly, I am deeply grateful to Readlang, and the excellent resource it has become for me to learn and acquire vocabulary in Spanish. I am passionate about reading and learning. I use Readlang every single day, now for more than 280 days straight, with over 4000 words or phrases being learned/studied. So I am not knocking Readlang or its toolset that includes the AI bot. I understand the story bot’s usefulness for many students, but I think it should be like all tools, be recoginzed for its limitations, and be put in its proper place, and not to be lumped in with human written stories or texts.
No AI was used anywhere in this request. All mistakes are mine.