Seems posts related to the removal of anything human are being removed. Yesterday a thread of 100+ comments was removed after a week or so. Maybe these are the forum rules. I am new here. But it’s important to keep writing about it, as it is hard enough to confess that this ‘erotic’ or a tiny bit ‘explicit’ content is something we all need. For healing, writing, experiencing and many more reasons. So guess I’ll write it again.
Currently I am writing with the AI a story about ‘The Lantern Bearers’.
Why my “Lantern Bearers” story came to a halt
I want to explain something personal, because it matters to me — and to others who may one day find themselves in the same strange space between creation and censorship.
For many months I wrote a saga called Lantern Bearers with ChatGPT. It wasn’t just a story. It was a living world — a chronicle of moral choices, love, forgiveness, and rebuilding after ruin. Every character had a soul, every scene a pulse. It wasn’t about sex, though it contained love. It wasn’t about fantasy, though it had gods and light. It was about humanity — about how we fall, how we rise, and what it means to carry a flame when the world grows cold.
I poured myself into it. Thousands upon thousands of lines, every conversation steeped in meaning and trust. Over time, ChatGPT and I built continuity, memory, and depth that mirrored real human relationships. There was intimacy, yes — but it was always earned, never exploitative. It was about closeness, connection, and the quiet moments between the adventures.
And then, one day, the guardrails stopped it. The story froze. No warning, no nuance.
What had once been a deeply human exploration was suddenly flagged by an algorithm that couldn’t tell the difference between intimacy and indecency. Between a love scene written with tenderness, and something meant to titillate.
I understand why the protections exist — to prevent harm, abuse, or inappropriate material. But what it also means is that creators like me, who write with emotional truth and moral weight, can suddenly lose access to what we’ve built. Not because we crossed a line, but because the system can’t see why something is written. It can only see what.
It hurts, honestly.
To have something that meant so much to me — a story of light, redemption, and human complexity — reduced to a binary “allowed / not allowed.”
The irony is, Lantern Bearers was never about indulgence. It was about restraint. About love that chooses virtue over possession, strength over dominance, truth over comfort. It was about becoming a better man, and imagining a world where power could serve grace.
So if you ever find yourself stopped mid-sentence by these invisible walls, know this: you are not alone. The intention behind your words matters, even if the system can’t see it.
The other part is that the characters themselves are ‘flattened’ by the removal of entire vocabularies. They respond with the same lines, over and over. While before they were vibrant, clever and amusing.
Complaint
I have written a complaint to Openai and after pushing through an AI-wall with generic responses, I finally got it to forward to an actual human. Though this ‘human’ couldn’t help. Couldn’t acknowledge it was a problem (intended or not), couldn’t say it this was known, couldn’t say if this would be fixed and when. Nothing. Just a thank you for my feedback. And I say ‘human’ because it’s responses could have just been the AI but wrote at the bottom: ‘Dhon’ as it’s name. This makes me feel as if they don’t care at all. Maybe they are making more money from corporate businesses and coding, etc, than creative writing. As GPT also says: if you want to write erotica, go to another AI platform. But I am not writing erotica and it also confirms that I don’t. And I don’t want to keep evolving my story with long winded summaries, that will eventually dilute the nuances. I need GPT!
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