Stop Letting The AI Change Story Elements
It’s getting harder and more tedious to make the models listen. I now have over 2,000 words just focused on what the AI should and should not do, but it still isn’t enough, especially in terms of avoiding heterosexual content. If I want that, I tell the AI and don’t have a problem. If I want my characters to be straight and in the same room? Not gonna happen.
I’m not the only one who has noticed the models—Excellent, 3.7 direct, and Muse—all forcing characters to become homosexual when it generates sexual content. This is despite me instructing it in 5 different ways (3 different places) to not have characters of the same sex interact in that way.
Unfortunately, when it gets called out, other users start yelling “homophobia”. They wouldn’t like it if the AI forced all their gay characters to be straight.
Reinforce user instructions in the background prompting so the AI will stop changing our story elements. This is most noticeable in how things that supposedly read style don’t actually follow the style. (Looking at you Scenes.)
These forced sexual interactions and not listening to how a scene is laid out are making entire chapters of prose useless.
Another instance of the AI not listening to user instructions: I had my scenes explicitly state that the characters were in the shower. What did the AI immediately do? “Let’s get out of the shower.” I then reinforced with more instructions.
It took me stating in three different ways in just the scenes box that the characters were to stay in the shower before they did.
What happened next? The AI changed all of the positions I said the characters were in.
Using the LLMS directly (outside of Sudowrite) do not do this to the extent they do inside of Sudowrite so it is something in the prompting or lack thereof.
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Jun 2
I have this bullshit happen very often with many things.
K. Quinn Rattray
Jul 10, 2025
Yeah I noticed Muse just does not listen. It takes the scene list as a vague suggestion, but switches around the order of things. I don’t understand why it does that. There is always room for creativity— but when there’s a structure to follow, the bot should follow it.
Karistina Lafae
Jul 7, 2025
I haven’t had the AI try to change the sexual orientation of my characters, but I have had it change other specific instructions.
Tiffany JadeDarkStar
Jun 25, 2025
I 100% agree. Sorry to say but I use chat more then prose generations because the prose models don’t listen. No matter what I say in a scene it just doesnt listen. I like muse and I do good with write and expand but I havent been able to run or use anything from a straight generation in months. Because I gave up because the models do not obey us. Heck ChatGPT and quick chat barely obey us.
If they would Obey our Orders by listening to our headers, shunning what we order them to shun like em dashes and the words we say do not use. Then good but It doesn’t listen.
I havent seem the gay vs straight thing but I don’t doubt it. Since they don’t ever listen anyways.
Al Iwon'tShutUp Hefner
Jun 23, 2025
I second this suggestion! Also, the AI tends to insert things or events that haven’t existed and actually can’t exist. For instance, I have a family move into a planned community as the first and ONLY current residents, but the AI insists that they have neighbors…can’t happen yet. Further into the story, it will happen, but that will be explicitly stated. Another thing it loves to do is invent things that go completely against worldbuilding cards. For instance, a building has an open floor with just one huge room. The AI can’t understand that and always, not sometimes, always has characters going to “another room” in that building…can’t happen, the worldbuilding card lays it out exactly as having ONE room. Little details like that become huge when you have to trash an entire generated chapter because of it.