*not my screenshot
hey, ao3 user i_hate_ai_fic
1. ai witch hunt is harming genuine writers as much as ai does, if not more. you are harming genuine writers as much as ai does, if not more.
2. ai was trained to mimic human-made works. if you think a work “looks like it was created by ai”, please ask yourself what you think ai was trained on and what you think it was trained to mimic.
3. re: this post and this post. you can never know for sure if a work was written by ai (no, ai checker doesn’t work, the machine itself is ai and unreliable). you can only guess based on vibes. so yes, there’s always a chance of you wrongly accusing a genuine writer who doesn’t use ai to create their works.
4. this is the exact reason genuine writers no longer share their works and why more and more genuine writers take their human-made works down.
5. no matter what you claim, I believe this can be considered harassment if what you’re doing results in people getting harassed, which is against ao3’s terms of service — meaning people can still report you for this.
with all that said, I believe this isn’t how collections on ao3 work anymore (so if anything, there’s a chance this is just troll/ragebait, which is shitty regardless). here’s how ao3 collections actually work now.
edit: apparently this is how they bypass ao3’s system
if you can, please make sure to give love, kudos, nice comments and support to works under this person’s bookmarks here.
also here’s what ao3 says about ai-generated works on their platform.
This specific person and this specific bullshit AI witch-hunt campaign is directly responsible for the wave of amazing, incredible, talented authors who flat out deleted their profiles and their fics or hid fics in their own private collections or flat out stopped writing. For those not in HR fandom spaces, this happened about a month ago: a sudden rash of fics and authors vanishing seemingly overnight. Some did this because they were targeted and attacked and harassed, and some did it in solidarity for those who were suffering.
This AI witch-hunt bullshit causes real and actual harm, guys. To people. Real people who write fanfic and post it for us for free. I’m gonna say it: I may hate AI and refuse to use it myself, but I would rather read an AI fic than engage in this AI hunting behavior.
In my RL work environment, I have a coworker who loves AI so much that her response to just about anything is “did you use AI for that?” As someone creative, I hate this and it offends me. But at least this woman is not being intentionally cruel when she asks—she isn’t accusing anyone of using AI or trying to catch someone in a lie or whatever else is happening in fandom, she just… Well. She’s not terribly creative herself.
AI was trained on fanfic. Also, some people do write obscenely fast; they may not have jobs, they may have insomnia, they may use speech-to-text, they might just be like one of my besties who regularly could churn out high quality 50k in one week during NaNo so used to make higher word count targets for herself.
Idk what else to say, but I hate the idea of ANYONE being made to feel so bad that they delete their work or hide it or worse, stop writing or sharing. I’m so mad about this that frankly? I’m about to ready to start supporting AI use in fanfic because the alternative is this kind of cruel and mean and malicious insanity. The only thing it does is hurt actual human people. AI itself and the AI companies don’t give a rat’s ass.
So if you’re tempted to accuse someone is using AI for fanfic or is you read a fic and think “is this AI?” ask yourself this: why does it matter? (Do not come in here to tell me all the ways AI sucks and hurts the planet, I know.) What purpose would it serve to ask or comment or accuse the author of using AI? How would you feel if someone did that to you?
But Sara, what can I do, then? The back button is right there. Close the tab. Don’t read the fucking fic or other fics by that author. “Oh but all their fics sound the same-” Yeah. Because people have distinct voices and writing styles.
Be kind to others and don’t be a dick. Why is that so goddamn hard for people????
