I don’t think this is due to a pro-diversity bias, but is simply due to this being extremely popular in easily available stories: https://archiveofourown.org/works/68352911/chapters/176886216 (9 of the top 10 pairings are M/M, each with 40k+ stories; for reference Project Gutenberg only has about 76,000 books total). I think this is due to M/M romance being a superstimulus for female sexuality in a similar way to how lesbian porn is a superstimulus for male sexuality.
Hmm, I tried and failed to reproduce the effect of Claude writing about gays: asking Claude itself to write a story in Tomas B.’s style had it produce a story with no gay couples. Nor did I manage to elicit this quirk from DeepSeek, the Chinese AI (whom I asked two times), from Grok 4 (who generated a story containing the phrase “Sarah, who’d left me for a guy”), GPT-5.1-thinking (whose story had a male and female character and no gays). What I don’t understand is how the bias was eliminated.
I don’t think this is due to a pro-diversity bias, but is simply due to this being extremely popular in easily available stories: https://archiveofourown.org/works/68352911/chapters/176886216 (9 of the top 10 pairings are M/M, each with 40k+ stories; for reference Project Gutenberg only has about 76,000 books total). I think this is due to M/M romance being a superstimulus for female sexuality in a similar way to how lesbian porn is a superstimulus for male sexuality.
The pro-diversity bias’ main influence seems to be changing the proportion of stories focused on non-white male/male pairings, as you can see here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/27420499/chapters/68826984
Hmm, I tried and failed to reproduce the effect of Claude writing about gays: asking Claude itself to write a story in Tomas B.’s style had it produce a story with no gay couples. Nor did I manage to elicit this quirk from DeepSeek, the Chinese AI (whom I asked two times), from Grok 4 (who generated a story containing the phrase “Sarah, who’d left me for a guy”), GPT-5.1-thinking (whose story had a male and female character and no gays).
What I don’t understand is how the bias was eliminated.