Danny Phantom quotes that relate directly to my life
"If I weren't a C student I would've thought of that 5 days ago."
Keni

pixel skylines
$LAYYYTER
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Not today Justin
trying on a metaphor
Sade Olutola
KIROKAZE
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Love Begins
noise dept.
NASA
Misplaced Lens Cap
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Mike Driver
art blog(derogatory)

Janaina Medeiros
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Danny Phantom quotes that relate directly to my life
"If I weren't a C student I would've thought of that 5 days ago."
Clarifying Our No GenAI Policy
Earlier this auction season, we expanded our policy against the use of generative AI in any part of FTH.
The response to this policy has been overwhelmingly positive in the two weeks since we posted it, and we’re glad about that. But there are a handful of people who have picked up on the part about keeping records of your work in progress, and are worried that we included that because we are planning on subjecting creators to heightened scrutiny.
We’re writing this extension now to allay those concerns, and clarify why we wrote what we did.
First and foremost: we respect and appreciate every single person who creates for the auction using their own talents and mind. Our aim in this updated policy is to protect our creators and to preserve the auction as a protected creative space for people who value one another’s creative efforts. The forceful tone of our statement was not meant to intimidate, but rather to erect a protective boundary around the auction, in order to create an environment where participants can trust one another's authenticity.
Unfortunately, drawing that kind of firm boundary is increasingly necessary as the world changes and genAI usage becomes more normalized. We really, really wish this weren’t the case—but it is. We the mod team see the shift to genAI in our professional lives as educators and IT workers; but we also saw it in the dozens of auction posts this year in which creators put warnings in their auction notes, indicating that potential bidders were not to request fanworks based on AI-generated content. We realized that we would be letting those creators down by not establishing and maintaining that boundary for them. That’s why it is so important to us to make it clear to people inclined to use generative AI that they are unwelcome in this event. We also want to be clear that our policy goes both ways: if someone is asking you to create a fanwork based on AI-generated material, you have recourse. You can reach out to us, and we will help you.
We believe that firmly stating this stance is the best way to create an environment where we seldom need to act as enforcers. We are not interested in policing auction participants (nor do any of us have the time to do so), and we really don’t want to have to adopt the mindset that would be necessary to be on the lookout all the time.
We have not written and posted this policy because we want FTH to change. We have done it because the world is already changing, and we are trying to get ahead of all these problems by enacting a more extensive policy than the "no AI" rule that a lot of fandom events use. In fact, we hope that by laying out robust reasoning and practices, we can help the mods for other fandom events figure out how to craft more concrete policies of their own. Because the fact is that, sooner or later, we (and they) will need concrete policies. The next time a bidder comes to us with concerns about an FTH work being generated with AI, or a creator expresses concern about being asked to illustrate or record or remix a slopfic, we would have to deal with it whether or not we had ever set out an official policy. We would have to look at the work ourselves, decide whether it was likely enough to be worth pursuing, and then talk to the creator or bidder and see if they could provide evidence. Having this policy can also help us maintain better relationships between creators and bidders when somebody does have suspicions about generative AI use: those with genuine concerns deserve a hearing, and those who are doing their own work deserve a full exoneration in the eyes of the person they are working with.
We urge people to keep a record of their own creative process because, as genAI becomes more normalized, there is going to be a lot more uncertainty about provenance going around, in professional and academic settings as well as in fandom. (For what it’s worth: though proof of human creation is the most hot-button concern, the process is basically identical to proving a work wasn’t plagiarized. The reasoning may be new, but the processes are largely what you would already do by rote). We are not suggesting that anyone change their style, or even go out of their way to produce a paper trail; we are simply noting that the preservation of work history, in whatever format makes sense for the thing you're making, will make it easier to shut down any question of genAI use.
Even if saving and storing a couple of work-in-progress files seems onerous, there are lots of things that can serve as evidence of your creative process! To give just a few examples:
Many word processors save a version history automatically with dates linked to changes
People often keep backup copies of their raw files in the event of a crash
Artists sometimes share progress pictures publicly or privately as they work (even just a screenshot sent to a friend via DM)
Recruiting the help of beta readers means there will be multiple versions of one piece with slight differences as they get feedback.
These are all things that would constitute “proof of work”, should you ever need it (in the course of this auction or for any other reason).
If this policy makes you uncomfortable about participating in future FTH auctions, then we understand your decision to step back. That being said: we think it’s overwhelmingly likely that other fandom events will start adopting similar policies, once the changing world forces them to get more specific than “no AI.” We would not have felt compelled to write this policy if we didn’t see those changes coming. Believe us, we hate them too. We hate that generative AI has forced us into a position where this kind of boundary is required. But that is now the world we are in, and it’s only getting worse. We are trying to create a protected space within that wider landscape, and given how insidious genAI has become, we cannot protect it effectively without a strong boundary and some outward-facing spikes.
Your work is important because you created it, and we will always fight for that.
On fun thing about everyone using ai to do their data analysis or write articles or whatever is it's really exposing how many people weren't doing their jobs this whole time.
"We just found out that the ai tool we've been using to make business decisions for 3 months has been hallucinating all the sales data!" okay well it was stupid to use ai for this, why didn't you learn how glitchy it was before implementing it, but far more importantly, what you've just told me is that nobody bothered to check the real numbers for 3 months. "This guy has been using ai to write 9 magazine articles for us and the quoted info was all fake, he has been fired" no editor checked the first eight? "I used ai to write this report and the math was wrong" you didn't check the math? In your own report? Everyone is just telling on themselves re: how their work was always wildly unreliable and they already weren't doing their jobs.
i think chris flemings is one of the only comedians thats going to get into heaven
a couple of not-as-supported orgs that could use some love
As is typical for post-auction donation period, we on the mod team are having a great time watching Number Go Up. It's also pretty typical that some of our supported organizations are getting a lot more support than others… but the disparity is especially dramatic this year. Right now, our three most popular orgs — Gaza Soup Kitchen, National Immigrant Justice Coalition, and Advocates 4 Trans Equality — have received over 55% of the total amount donated. (Given that we've got thirteen orgs on the list plus our anti-poverty umbrella category, that's a huge percentage.)
So we wanted to take some time to highlight four five amazing orgs on our list that are each getting under 3% of total donations so far. If you haven't donated yet, or are considering an extra donation on behalf of ROFL, please keep these fantastic orgs in mind!
Fight for the Future Education Fund works for freedom and equality in the digital sphere. Through advocacy, education and creative campaigning, they fight to ensure that technology is a force for empowerment, free expression, and liberation rather than tyranny, corruption, and structural inequality. Their work -- as shown in their campaign to take back power from data brokers -- combines policy-level interventions with education about the steps individuals can take to protect themselves and their neighbors.
Greenlight America gives ordinary citizens a pathway to fight climate change by helping them advocate successfully for clean energy. A unique team of grassroots campaigners, clean energy experts, public policy professionals, communications specialists, and coalition builders, GA helps mobilize and support local groups and volunteers who want to get utility-scale clean energy projects built in their communities. In so doing, they do two vitally important things: they drive meaningful progress toward environmentally safer and more sustainable energy, and they offer people who feel frightened and helpless a path toward participating meaningfully in positive change.
In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda fights to secure reproductive justice for all Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people. In coordination with state partners, IOOV works with key decision makers to shape public policy to address the many interconnected issues and the unique reproductive health concerns of Black women. Those include the right to health care, dignified birth, and access to abortion care; equity in housing and education; fair employment and clean water; and the full range of social, economic, political, and cultural supports needed for Black women and families to thrive.
Open Secrets works for transparency in a vital domain of politics: money. They track the movement of money in US politics, and chronicle its effects on both elections and public policy. By creating high-quality and timely datasets and publishing analysis and reports, they work to fuel conversation among journalists and policymakers alike. OpenSecrets also regularly works with media outlets and journalists to provide exclusive data and analysis to power investigations alongside their own original reporting.
VoteBeat is working at two vital junctures for democracy: reinvigorating local journalism and reengaging Americans in local politics. VoteBeat reporters embed for three-month stints in local nonprofit newsrooms that provide expert knowledge of their communities. In addition to providing critical nonpartisan coverage of election-related issues at all levels of government, VoteBeat seeks to revitalize political reporting at the local level.
Danny Phantom quotes that relate directly to my life
“If I weren’t a C student I would’ve thought of that 5 days ago.”
unsurprisingly, this holds up 11 years later.
Remind me later.
The real impact of AI at university level that I've watched in real time is how so many students come onto courses now - including Masters level - who straight up don't know how to analyse/evaluate things anymore. They just accept whatever they first read/hear completely uncritically. Every time you point it out you have to coax them into Actually Thinking.
I've spotted a huge decline over the last two years. What's upsetting is how so many of our current third years have declined since their first year. I did a seminar with them the other day, on the topic of the environmental impacts of different diets. One guy told me confidently that there would be no additional agricultural lands if we all went vegetarian.
"Cool," I said. "What's your source for that?"
"I'm sure I read it," he said.
"Fair," said I, "go and look it up. Find an academic source, let's assess it to see if it's robust."
The first thing he did was go to Google, and then read the AI summary.
"That's not a source," I said. "Find me a source."
Five minutes later, he happily tells me that a Guardian article says so, and mentions the World Economic Forum.
"Okay," I said. "Neither of those are academic sources, and the WEF is secondary anyway. Go to Google Scholar, and find a journal article."
Ten minutes later, he tells me he can only find articles that say it's a very complex issue in spite of pop cultural received wisdom, and we don't actually know.
A THIRD YEAR. This man has a dissertation due in THREE MONTHS. This is a skill we taught him in first year, and it's all dribbled out of his ears in the quest for easy summaries from an autocomplete algorithm. And I dearly wish I could say he's an exception, but Jesus Christ, that would be a lie.
I'm currently writing a lecture for the second years for their research methods module, and I normally wouldn't need to do this. But I'm having to re-introduce them to the basic concepts of how to actually analyse findings rather than lazily take whatever they seem to say at face value. I'm trying to find a good paper that had Surprising findings, because I want to show them a research question and a set of results and then get them to speculate and research on why they found something so different, but that's a difficult thing to search for.
Ngh. Yelling at the choir here, I know, but NNNNGH
I can't be the only one who thinks this isn't a problem with AI, it's a problem with a for-profit college system that pushes inadequate students through in order to extract debt from them while failing to stop the progress of the illiterate. Back in the day you'd be laughing out of 7th grade English if you delivered something like that, let alone a master's degree. These people should have flunked out way before AI was invented, and forced to repeat half the curriculum in order to graduate, and only then be allowed to move on to the next stage. AI has become a scapegoat for all the growing problems the education system had long before its invention; it's the same as blaming phones or Wikipedia. The reason these students shouldn't have a master's isn't because they became stupid overnight in November 15th, 2022; it's because they were already stupid and no one educated it out of them, so the moment they found a shortcut to avoid using their brains they forgot what little they already contained. But just like with phones and Wikipedia, everyone will just blame the new tech and those damn kids on their internet, and absolutely nothing will be done to prevent dangerously ignorant people from eroding the meaning of a university degree because extraction tuition money is more profitable than giving a shit.
No.
This, as I said in the post, is a noticeable and significant problem in the last two years. It is affecting students who were fine three years ago, and now aren't. It is a very specific issue that is affecting very specific skills, including previously very intelligent people
This is already attested in the literature. Meanwhile, the for-profit education system has not changed in the last two years
Additionally, prior to the last 2-3 years, I had failed one student ever, and flagged one student ever for plagiarism. This year we've had to deal with five separate plagiarism cases on the Masters course alone, all of whom admitted to LLM use. Not one of them can analyse information worth a damn; all of them had excellent prior undergrad scores.
This is an LLM problem
Saw your original post uncredited on FB 😒
Comments were very much agreeing with you.
ON FACEBOOK???
yeah i was surprised too but your op is definitely doing numbers on facebook.
Because it's true and it's terrifying and it really encapsulates something about the relationship between the tech industry and education.
Back in the days of internet 1.0 it was obvious what a boon it could be from an educational POV. So much information at everyone's fingertips! How could you not want a world in which all the wisdom of tje ages is available at the touch of a button? I was in grad school when the Web became a thing. I thought it was awesome. It made finding scholarship so much easier. I love the old card catalogs and their card catalog smell, but digitizing the search process eventually made it easier to find a much wider range of sources and to get them faster.
But that was when the tech industry hadn't really worked out how to monetize this and were content to be making a useful product that everyone wanted to use in order to find things they were looking for.
Now, the tech industry has colonized our entire educational system from preschool up. The purpose of today's edtech is not to facilitate learning; it is to make students and teachers alike dependent on edtech. We're not using edtech to find information; edtech wants to feed us a proprietary slurry composed of shredded and reconstituted information. The slurry is easy to generate and to consume, whereas reading actual texts is harder, and writing them hardest of all. And when people can set up a continuous slurry feed at the touch of a button, who's going to do the hard work? And if anyone does the hard work, who's going to go to the trouble of tracking it doen and reading it in its original state?
Every fucking time I open a PDF some little bot says aww, this looks like such a long document, you work so hard, can I just summarize that for you? NO! THANK! YOU! I did not need Clippy's help to write a letter and I don't need you to summarize this article! I downloaded it because I want to read it because I want to know what it actually says!
And now we have these gen AI assholes out there every day pushing the idea that today's youth don't need college degrees any more. The fucking ingratitude. For 30 years the tech industry has been using higher ed to subsidize its worst fucking ideas, and now they want to kill it because...why? Because compliant slurry sippers will make better corporate drones? But soon we're not going to have any white collar jobs, or at least that's what they're all telling us. So exactly what is the plan?
What's Anthropic gonna do once no one is writing their own books any more--or for those who are still writing their own books, there's no money in publishing? What happens to science after people give up on actual research and just churn out AI slop that nobody's going to read anyway--because Gemini will just summarize it for them? Which is already happening? Fifty years on what's model collapse gonna look like? I mean I'll be dead, so i'm not gonna find out, but my kid will be dealing with it.
These jackasses don't have a plan for the future any more than this administration has a plan for the war they just started. So much destruction. All to enrich people who are already too rich.
Sorry. I just have so much grief about all this.
Our Stance on GenAI (but more)
In 2025, we responded to the infuriating influx of AI-generated slop in creative spaces with the following policy: Our Stance on GenAI. Given the significant developments in GenAI since last spring, we thought it was important to issue an updated statement and remind you where we stand. The TL;DR is that we’re more anti-GenAI than ever; please see below for our expanded policy for FTH 2026 and onward.
To start, let us firmly reiterate:
Generative AI has no place in FTH. It is not welcome here, under any circumstance.
Non-exhaustive list of unwelcome slop generators:
image generators like Imagen, Midjourney, and similar
video generators like Sora, Runway, and similar
LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and similar
vibecode generators like Copilot, Roo, Replit, and similar
audio generators like ElevenLabs, MusicLM, and similar
text editors like Grammarly that are known to be powered by LLMs
Starting this year, the following policies apply to all creators (including those in ROFL) and bidders, respectively:
For Creators
Participants found to have used generative AI to produce a fanwork, in part or in whole, for their bidder(s) will be permanently banned from participating in future iterations of Fandom Trumps Hate. This includes fan labor of all kinds.
We strongly advise (in FTH, but also more generally) that creators of all mediums keep some kind of work history, insofar as possible (we understand this may be more difficult for fan labor). You likely already do, intentionally or otherwise! Documenting your fanwork progress is one of the easiest ways to prove that your work is truly yours, should the need ever arise. To be clear, we don't require that you provide your bidder with intermediate stages of your fanwork—that is entirely up to you.
For Bidders
Participants who deliberately introduce any AI-generated materials into the fanwork creation process (see below for concrete examples) will forfeit any unfinished portion of the won fanwork and will be permanently banned from participating in future iterations of Fandom Trumps Hate.
This includes (but is not limited to):
giving a creator an AI-generated prompt (of any medium) (e.g. requesting a fanfic based on an AI-generated image, generating a fanwork prompt using ChatGPT, etc.)
requesting fan labor be performed on AI-generated material (e.g. beta-reading a slopfic, getting help with a vibecoded workskin, etc.)
requesting a fanwork (of any medium) that is intended to accompany AI-generated material (e.g. cover art for a slopfic, photo manips of AI-generated images, podfics of slopfics, etc.)
feeding creators' fanwork(s) into a generative AI model
We are keenly aware that since last year, existing beloved tools and workflows have had unasked-for generative AI features forced into them, with varying degrees of transparency about whether or not they can be shut off or excluded. Our ask is that all participants make an effort to avoid using features known to rely on generative AI in anything even peripherally auction-related. Familiarize yourself with the tools you work with and use your best judgement; if a new feature would make your fanwork trivially easy for someone without your skill set to create, it may rely on generative AI.
A Reminder:
The more generative AI intrudes into creative spaces, the harder it becomes to distinguish between slop and human-made work, even to a trained eye/ear. We absolutely encourage everyone to educate themselves on how to get better at spotting it. That said, it can be very tempting to over-correct and default to the assumption that anything you come across with certain characteristics is AI-generated. We ask that everyone strive to assume that your fellow FTH participants are operating in good faith. Not every piece of text containing em dashes* was generated with ChatGPT; not every video with a cool, improbable-looking effect was generated with Sora; not every piece of audio with a noticeable skip or glitch was generated with ElevenLabs.
Please be kind to each other. If you suspect your fanwork or prompt contains AI-generated material, please reach out to the mods via email so we can address situations on a case-by-case basis.
We recognize this policy may seem unusually rigid in comparison to our others; most aspects of FTH operate on an honor system, and in general we try to be as flexible as we can in our policies to allow for the best experience possible for all FTH participants. This, however, is something we are not willing to be flexible on. We ask that you trust we have given this serious consideration and respect that while we are always willing to answer clarifying questions, we are not open to debate on this topic.
Why do we care about this?
FTH2026 - Supported Org Update
The Center for Countering Digital Hate has been removed from our roster of supported organizations this year.
It has come to our attention that CCDH has been supporting efforts to repeal Section 230, a law that currently protects websites from being sued for posts made by individual users. The push to repeal it is frequently couched in appealing-sounding language—protect children, stop hate speech, etc.—when in reality, repealing it opens the door for aggressive censorship, denies access to important resources, and shreds some of the last vestiges of privacy we have left. You can read a more thorough breakdown of why Section 230 is important here.
But good news! To replace CCDH, we are tagging in an org we supported in 2025: Fight for the Future Education Fund. FFtF advocates for internet health and their project BadInternetBills is a very good resource for demystifying bad internet policies in the works. We rotated them out after they didn't get as much love as other orgs last year, but they are our saving grace for helping highlight the issues with CCDH before we directed donations their way. We're glad to have an excuse to add them back in, and we hope you'll be glad to see them too.
One more thing: we take it seriously that people rely on us to do good research here to help cut through the noise of deciding which orgs are worthwhile. Though we do the best we can, it's plenty possible for us to miss things, which is why we want you to also feel empowered to reach out to us if you have questions or concerns about an org we're supporting! If you believe we've missed something about an org that would put them in opposition to FTH's larger mission, please feel free to let us know so we can do our due diligence.
In this case, we flopped, but FFtF had the information we needed to catch our mistake in time. Here's to hoping we can give them their proper flowers this time around!
You can read more about Fight for the Future and boost their organization post here. We hope you'll consider supporting them when you bid this year.
Something has come up with one of this year’s supported orgs, and we’re going to be making a switch to our list. We’ll have more to say about that here—why we’re pulling that org, and what we’re slotting in instead—ASAP, after we’ve been in contact with all of the creators who included it in their list.
FTH 2026 Signups Are Open!
Do you create fanart, fanfic, podfics, videos, or any other kind of digital fanwork? Do you have services you can offer your fellow creators such as betaing, typesetting, research, or sensitivity reading? Do you want to use any of this to raise money for progressive causes?
If so, welcome to the 10th annual Fandom Trumps Hate auction!
Some light reading before you go straight to the signup form - even if you've participated before, please check these out!
FTH FAQ
What to expect on the signup form
Which fandoms are on this year’s list (but of course you can write in any fandoms you like)
FTH 2026 Calendar
List of Supported Nonprofits
One change to note: If you would like to offer your fanwork in "Any fandom," the options have changed. We have summarized those changes here.
If you've read all that and are ready to proceed, the 2026 signup form is here!
The main auction is only for digital fanworks - do you create physical fan crafts that you'd like to raise money with? Check out our Fan Crafts Bazaar!
FLY MY PRETTIES
FTH 2026 Auction Calendar
Below you'll find the calendar for the tenth (!) FTH auction.
(What is FTH?)
Our list of supported organizations for 2026 is here. Over the next week, we'll be posting more in-depth profiles of each of these organizations so that creators and bidders can make thoughtful, informed decisions.
You can also look at the Auction FAQ (which has lots of useful information for people thinking about signing up as creators, as well as dedicated sections on bidding and on nonprofit orgs.) If you’re raring to go, you can also look at our bidding policies. You'll also find the dates for our 2026 Crafts Bazaar, if you're interested in creating or receiving physical fanworks.
FTH 2026 Calendar
Monday, Jan 26th: creator signups open for both the auction and the craft bazaar
Sunday, Feb 8th: creator signups close for the main auction; craft bazaar signups remain open!
Friday, Feb 27th: browsing period begins, craft bazaar opens
Tuesday, March 3rd, 8am ET: auction bidding opens; craft bazaar signups close
Saturday, March 7th, 8pm ET: auction bidding closes
Wednesday, Mar 18th: auction donations due; craft stalls close
Thursday, Dec 31st: fanworks due
We're excited to be back for another round, and we hope you are too! After all, the world needs us more than ever: our donations, our community care, and our joyful and inspiring fanworks. We need one another right now, and FTH is a great way to make that happen.
Wake up fandom it's that time again
I think less of you when you say this <3
Our next Activist AMA is coming up!
Join us Tuesday, April 15th at 9:00 Eastern/6:00 Pacific for an AMA with Wendy Via, CEO and Co-Founder of Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. We're extremely honored to host Wendy on the FTH Action Discord Server.
We'll talk over video with Wendy about GPAHE's mission, her history as an activist, and the kinds of things we can do to get involved or support their work.
We will have some questions ready, but we also want to ask yours! You can leave a question as a comment on this post, or you can bring it with you to the AMA on Tuesday.
About GPAHE
GPAHE was on of FTH's supported orgs for 2025. GPAHE believes that to protect and advance human rights, particularly those of marginalized and underrepresented communities, build inclusive democracies, and solve global challenges, we must expose and counter the far-right actors and movements that undermine those values. GPAHE exposes and disrupts racist and other hateful transnational movements, holds tech companies accountable, advocates for policies to eradicate hate and far-right extremism, and builds multinational coalitions to protect communities.
This event is TODAY! We hope to see you there!
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I WAS NOT FUCKING PREPARED
Our next Activist AMA is coming up!
Join us Tuesday, April 15th at 9:00 Eastern/6:00 Pacific for an AMA with Wendy Via, CEO and Co-Founder of Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. We're extremely honored to host Wendy on the FTH Action Discord Server.
We'll talk over video with Wendy about GPAHE's mission, her history as an activist, and the kinds of things we can do to get involved or support their work.
We will have some questions ready, but we also want to ask yours! You can leave a question as a comment on this post, or you can bring it with you to the AMA on Tuesday.
About GPAHE
GPAHE was on of FTH's supported orgs for 2025. GPAHE believes that to protect and advance human rights, particularly those of marginalized and underrepresented communities, build inclusive democracies, and solve global challenges, we must expose and counter the far-right actors and movements that undermine those values. GPAHE exposes and disrupts racist and other hateful transnational movements, holds tech companies accountable, advocates for policies to eradicate hate and far-right extremism, and builds multinational coalitions to protect communities.