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J | they/them or he/him | 30s | east coast usa | a small man indoors | About

[inthetags]

reblog and tag a tag that you have blocked

[aropride]

joke i like to make when a baby is crying in public is “we’ve all been there.” We literally have

[californiasleazeking]

[pwhl-mybeloved]

you have one precious life why are you interacting with chatgpt

[pwhl-mybeloved]

tags that had me howling award

[naturalpr3y]

I can always post worse

[jlaudio]

how it feels when the thing i like is something i really like and thats because i really like it and it makes me happy to like it

[trangoldin]

source

[metagnostic-deactivated20200809]

while you were hitting the juul, going to college, having casual sex, driving your car, and eating takeout food, i died horribly under mysterious circumstances in a national park. and my body was never found again

[briannyssey]

Oh easy mistake. Yearning actually rises from the floor and longing hangs from the ceiling

[briannyssey]

🥺🥺

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

you guys aren't gonna like this but if you want ao3 to be a neutral archive that will host anything that includes shit made with ai no matter how objectionable you find that

[anyasadventures]

Ugh. I hate AI fics but you're RIGHT. Just like with everything else we don't like, we can still just. Not engage with it.

[signoraviolettavalery]

no. I disagree. ao3 is an archive of fan content. as in, created by fans. An AI is not a fan. it's not a person. it can't write or create. ao3 is an archive of transformative work and chatGPT cannot perform meaningful transformative work, it can only regurgitate slop.

and yes, as others have said, ao3 still does have certain limitations. You can't plagiarize - and AI is a plagiarism machine, you can't post 'iso' or 'placeholder' fics, etc. It can absolutely choose to say the content it hosts must be made by humans without censoring the acual content.

[lynati]

^^^^^

[firelxdykatara]

Except that Ao3 absolutely cannot choose to say the content it hosts must be made by humans without opening the door to the very censorship it was created to avoid.

Because there is no way to tell with 100% accuracy that a piece of writing was created by or with the aid of generative AI, and anything less than 100% accuracy is completely unacceptable, no nuance, no exceptions. You can tell with 100% accuracy if something is not a fanwork--like an ISO or placeholder post that does not contain a fanwork--and you can tell with 100% accuracy if a fanwork contains a link to a payment apparatus or is otherwise soliciting payment for fic in violation of the TOS, so these things can be disallowed and, when discovered and reported as violations, dealt with by PAC. And you can tell with 100% accuracy that a fic has been plagiarized, meaning that it has pulled entire passages word for word from another fic and this can therefore be detailed in a report in order for PAC to take action. (This is important to note because while generative AI is in fact The Plagiarism Machine, that can only be proven on the back end via the datasets used to train it. You can't actually look at generative output and tell which place the words were ripped from, because LLMs operate on statistical probabilities of word order, not actually pulling phrases wholesale from a specific work.)

But you cannot tell with 100% accuracy that a particular passage has been generated with AI.

And we are already seeing the problem with spurious AI accusations! People are claiming that 'excessive use of em-dashes' is a 'tell' for AI, when the only reason em-dashes exist in AI-generated output is because the machines were trained on human-generated writing that used them! (And as a writer who frequently ODs on em-dashes and italics, I find that particular 'tell' especially insulting. My overuse of em-dashes comes from my own brain, thank you very much.) So the only way to actually tell that someone on Ao3 is using AI to write their fic is if the admit as much up-front.

Guess what would happen if Ao3 decided to ban AI fics from the platform? Those fics would stop being tagged, and then we'd run into the exact same problems we had on FFN with fics being grudge-reported by bad faith actors, which was one of many reasons Ao3 was created in the first place--so that people couldn't do that.

Generative AI sucks and I think everyone who uses it to create fics is a loser, but I'd much rather be able to avoid them by excluding a tag or muting an author than have to worry about some asshole who hates me trying to get my fics deleted by reporting me to PAC for suspected AI use.

[dewdropdaffodil]

i love the tags by @silvysartfulness

[flamingwell]

The corollary to this is that when people tag AI fic appropriately, you CANNOT send hate in the comments!! Because you know what happens then? People will stop tagging for AI! You must click the back button (and block the tag and maybe the author too) and come here to vent instead. Otherwise we'll be left with piles of untagged AI slop on AO3.

[captainclickycat]

I think some people have a tendency to hear "there's a lot of social pressure on adults not to be single" and think it means something like "if you're single some people might think you're weird or assume there's something wrong with you, but as long as you don't prioritise other people's opinions of you that shouldn't pose a substantial problem". So when people talk about the difficulties they face being single they'll respond like "who cares what other people think! Just be single anyway! :)" and it's very well-intentioned but also frustratingly misses the point

Because the reality is that "social pressure" in this case means that our society is structured in a way that makes it more financially and practically difficult to navigate life while being single in very real and substantial ways. The problems posed by this can't be solved by single people just deciding not to care what other people think, solving them would involve working towards restructuring society in a way that actually accommodates us.

And of course, the point here isn't that everyone should go and pair up pronto to make things easier for themselves, or that anyone should stay in a relationship that isn't working or making them happy. But these are real, material problems we're talking about, and dismissing real material problems with "who cares?" is not actually a helpful or actionable response.

[bumblebeebats]

Made the mistake of buying a bag of spinach as a person who lives alone so now every single meal I eat for the next 2 weeks is gonna about this damn spinach. We are on 24/7 spinach lockdown. Last time this happened, I made 3 salads and a spinach curry and spinach pasta and STILL half the bag turned to green rot in the fridge. My conception of "what meals require spinach" is rapidly expanding into "what meals COULD conceivably include spinach." I am considering recipes never before seen outside the realms of vegan mommy blogs. By day 10 I anticipate I will probably just do a Land Before Time and take the rest of that shit raw

[locusustus]

[omegaversereloaded]

i cant believe that there's still gamergate STANK on games that women enjoy. NASTY misogyny residue. stardew valley is in fact a video game. animal crossing is also a video game. so are otome games and dating sims and twee little cozy games. sometimes a bitch doesnt wanna play bloodborne that shit's hard

[omegaversereloaded]

guys who mainly play 2k and fortnite will still be like oh youre not a real gamer for having 1000 hours in stardew. mother fucker you're larping as a basketball player

[fluorescentnova]

[curseofmeatthawsmoth]

[urbxnfxck]

need this to go with my "expensive and difficult" trucker hat

[ricetrippycreeps]

[gentlemanbones]

READER BEWEADER YOU’RE IN FOR A SCEADER

[skopostheorie]