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"tropos what if people scrutinize your own fics to see if they're ai" please scrutinize my fics. the method I use on a fic to see if it's AI is the exact same close reading I'd want people to do for my own work. it's literary analysis. you take the work and break down every element to determine how they combine to create meaning. it's not about being mean and judgmental, it's about treating the art as art

ok but the curiosity is killing me especially since I consider myself (unfortunately) very bad at identifying AI generated content - is your patho post referring to this fic? https://archiveofourown.org/works/84860661/chapters/223979051

if not, I’ll feel like an asshole but I went into the recents in the tag and that one seems not only crazy prolific in a short period of time, but also some of the comments… ALSO seem to have the tone of LLM writing??

didn’t want to reply to the post and have anyone coming for you about “”bullying!!!””” or whatever nonsense it is this week. it’s definitely a thing of multitudes though — if that is just someone’s writing style I’ll feel super bad (I get the AI generated BS too due to misuse of the em-dash), but hearing secondhand about the sheer amount of GenAI fic in the heated rivalry fandom is soooo depressing and infuriating. reversing strategy from the early days of my fic reading — I’m going to have to aim for like. grammatically incorrect and misspelled fic that indicates it’s actually someone’s own creative endeavour and not some lazy, planet-melting stolen patchwork of other peoples’ writing…

I can publicly say that it is that fic, bc the author has owned up to using genAI "for editing" (they always say that) and tagged the fic as such.

It's not simply edited with AI, because if it was, why was I able to tell so fucking easily? I've looked through a number of other fics published recently to see how many tripped my inner slop detector and I couldn't confidently point to them, so I didn't. I am sure AI-edited (whatever that means) text slips by me, I'm not psychic. The reason I caught this is because it's got enormous stretches of text in the ChatGPT/CharacterAI style, with all the accompanying flaws and nonsense, and I can literally tell the human author has a different style.

Despite what I said in my first post about not caring about the author's feelings (I was really mad) I don't want this author to become a scapegoat, I want this author to free themselves from being a stooge of the Hitlertron9000. If there's anyone who's followed me for years, you might remember I played around with AI tools when they were first starting to appear. We're going to be under incredible social pressure to use genAI. We need to be able to pull ourselves back from it.

#pathologic #since the author has tagged it as AI and moderated comments they know theyre going to get criticism #don't be abusive towards them

the thing that gets me about that AI patho fic is that people will say “what if that’s genuinely someone’s style” but

(besides the fact there’s a host of reasons why the signs of AI are not just about style or quality)

a few chapters in I could tell where the human author started roleplaying with the AI. their style wasn’t like the awful droning illogical overwrought fake deep shit and they actually wrote like a person, and also they vainly tried to make their character, daniil, react realistically to the absurd and out of character things artemy was doing, before giving in to the AI forcing a nonsensical almost smut scene

even after using so much AI the human still sounded human and they could write fairly adequate prose. it even felt like a gasp of air after drowning in the generated text, which gets more and more unbearable the more you read. it’s so sad they’re afraid to write without the AI doing most of the work

jerkeline

One way to get tasks done in the day is to make yourself a Chekhov's List. Put all of the things you have to do on a list, and now that they've been revealed they'll need to be completed by the afternoon (third act) and when you've completed something you can Chekov that task from the list

crimethinc

Nationalism, noun. — The erroneous belief that it is better to be exploited and oppressed by people of your own country, ethnicity, or creed.

You can print this text out as a poster to paste up here:

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#4thofJuly

witnessings

happy last day of pride to the gay snails who hug and kiss for hours without mating

brick3621

#basically lhod

permian-tropos

I haven’t read pathologic fic in a while but there’s a suspiciously high word count on a lot of recent multi chapter projects and I know some people are authentically immensely prolific but also I instantly found a fic that I can tell is AI generated. it LITERALLY mangled the plot details of the events it’s recounting in the first paragraph and keeps doing it, every other sentence is a mangled and overwrought metaphor, and yes it does use the not X but Y construction constantly. that’s only the tip of the iceberg. overall it SEEMS to resemble pathologic fic but if you look closer it’s just creepily wrong

I want to name the fic and let people judge for themselves but I know a lot of people aren’t attuned to these tells and won’t believe me and will play devil’s advocate. really, I kind of want to go through the whole thing line by line and eviscerate it as a teaching tool

I’m not claiming I can detect all AI text I’m saying that I am absolutely certain of this. I am witch hunting right now. I know a witch when I see one. I don’t care about this author’s feelings. if you want to forsake your humanity why should I treat you like a human. your fic is a soulless amalgam of real patho fic authors’ work. how very dare you.

permian-tropos

i’m still deliberating whether to outright name the author but I saw this on twitter, and I think this is why there are so many people complaining about a “witch hunt” because this problem is IMMENSE and a lot of people are probably trying to seed doubt into the conversation bc they are AI users

this is the study

fic prompters probably think their impact is negligible but you are actually some of the biggest users of this technofascist torment nexus

does anyone know how to get over the feeling that trying to describe your own story plot and characters is unbearably cringe and you should go jump in lava instead

I haven’t read pathologic fic in a while but there’s a suspiciously high word count on a lot of recent multi chapter projects and I know some people are authentically immensely prolific but also I instantly found a fic that I can tell is AI generated. it LITERALLY mangled the plot details of the events it’s recounting in the first paragraph and keeps doing it, every other sentence is a mangled and overwrought metaphor, and yes it does use the not X but Y construction constantly. that’s only the tip of the iceberg. overall it SEEMS to resemble pathologic fic but if you look closer it’s just creepily wrong

I want to name the fic and let people judge for themselves but I know a lot of people aren’t attuned to these tells and won’t believe me and will play devil’s advocate. really, I kind of want to go through the whole thing line by line and eviscerate it as a teaching tool

I’m not claiming I can detect all AI text I’m saying that I am absolutely certain of this. I am witch hunting right now. I know a witch when I see one. I don’t care about this author’s feelings. if you want to forsake your humanity why should I treat you like a human. your fic is a soulless amalgam of real patho fic authors’ work. how very dare you.

#pathologic

gaybichon

i think i found my new favorite artist on twitter

(source)

gaybichon

👆 me

facelessoldgargoyle

i fucking hate the “this is the good luck post.” Girl stop contributing to a superstitious environment with ur anecdotes there’s a million goddamn notes on it it’s statistically reasonable that a bunch of people remember the good things that happen after they reblog it

yvfu

this is the statistically reasonable post, reblogging it will have no effect except for putting this post on your blog

moral-autism

guys this post really works! I reblogged it and it really did put the post on my blog! you need to try it!

shithowdy

today i took the worst photo of a loon one can possibly take while remaining identifiably a loon

shithowdy

loon :)

shithowdy

i painted my loon :)

#yep that’s a loon

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Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Round 4 Part 3

Goncharov (Goncharov)

Stanford Pines (Gravity Falls)

Voting ended onJun 29

pyrrhiccomedy

honestly kind of pisses me off that goncharov is losing. "children's cartoons are artistically exactly the same thing as movies for grown ups"-ass website. some of you are so starved for complex depictions of human desire and sexuality that you can't even recognize it anymore.

wizzard890

also there's a reason that a lot of 90s critical feminist film scholarship specifically mentions Goncharov. in many ways its characters challenged calcified depictions of lust and desire in crime dramas, specifically ones that took place in a typical politicized "Eastern European" setting. it's crazy to me that no one on this website watches movies that actually give them the kind of horniness they claim to want.

#goncharov please obliterate that cartoon character

aprilbrowines

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