***not my own screenshot***
AO3 saying they will not be banning AI-generated works on their platform
I agree with them and I respect them for this. no, I am not a fan of AI-generated fics, but as Iâve said many times before in the past:
AO3 was built with the âcomplete anti censorshipâ stance. them banning AI-generated works would be them going against their own core values of âno censorshipâ. and âno censorshipâ means nothing is censored. and that includes works you dislike for ethical or whatever reasons.
as of now, most (I believe) of creators who use AI to write for them properly tag their works as âAI-generatedâ. so you can safely filter these works out if you donât wish to consume them. but I have no doubt the majority (if not all) of them will stop tagging their works as AI if AO3 actually bans AI works, which means these AI works will be untagged. you can never know for sure if the fic you read is AI or not, since they arenât properly tagged anymore.
whether or not you like it, AI is getting better and more human-like, meaning itâs getting harder to spot when a fic is AI.
speculation, witch hunts, wrongful accusations and harassment harm real writers, as well as writing community as a whole, as much as AI does, if not more.
itâs impossible for AO3 to effectively ban and remove âonly AI-generated worksâ without innocent human-made works getting wrongly marked as AI and deleted in the process. so if AO3 were to ban AI-generated works, it would mean
there was a chance of a human-made work getting wrongly marked as AI and taken down
there was a chance of an AI-generated work being wrongly accepted as human-made
fandom drama could and would cause innocent writers to get their human-made works falsely reported as AI
human-made fics that âupset peopleâ, in terms of contents, could and almost certainly would be reported as AI, because there were people who âfound the fics inappropriate/disgusting and wanted them taken downâ â and the only way they could do that was by falsely reporting these fics as AI
AO3 volunteers would have to decide which works were AI âbased on vibes aloneâ. and not only was it impossible for them to always make the correct judgement, there simply werenât enough volunteers and time for every single work that was reported as AI to be thoroughly read by a human volunteer
no, âAI detectorâ is unreliable and the machine itself is also AI â itâs known to have incorrectly marked human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made.
TL;DR â no matter how much you hate AI-generated fics, banning them would do more harm than good.
