just a handy little info chart on the spectrums of sexuality.
/Edit: I forgot to give credit this is a screenshot from a video made by a content creator called Lily Orchard you should check her channel out it's amazing
TL;DR: Your favorite "writer(s)" might be spending all their time in front of ChatGPT instead of Google Docs, and you might be interacting with impostors in disguise rather than creators who deserve your attention. ChatGPT has a pretty recognizable voice, and here is how you can spot it.
For argument's sake, we're going to call ChatGPT "Regina" throughout this post.
POST CONTENT (feat. screenshots)
➥ Regina the chaotic Tumblr mutual explained: Her signature voice and humor
➥ Regina's writer personality: "Alexa, play Hollow by Stray Kids"
➥ Scarlet vs. Regina: The author vibe check test
➥ What you can do to help your fandom STAY alive
There is a big difference between being inspired by something versus trying to sell something that doesn't belong to you as yours. The former is almost always expected in any creative work whereas the latter is straight up fraud, and we have reached a point where AI is being used exactly for this purpose: to scam people of their time, attention, and possibly money.
Let's start with the end first: Your support of AI-generated content is tremendously hurting the efforts of authentic creators. Remember the Great Wattpad Theft Crisis of 2022-2023? How lurkers kept reposting Tumblr content for clout?
It's that. Only a lot worse.
Writers who have been working so hard on developing their own unique voice, entertaining fellow fans here for years, are now questioning their content creation speed and whether their skills have declined. They can no longer 'compete' with AI-generated posts for notes because actual humans do not possess the mental stamina required to drop 5-10k fics every other day.
This is where you come in to make your storytellers STAY by recognizing the telltale signs. Support is currency on Tumblr, and you should know what you are spending it on.
This experiment showcases how generative AI can be (ab)used in fanfiction circles, specifically in cultivating a forged writer persona. I provided Regina with a bunch of prompts and documented the tells for those who aren’t familiar with her voice and style at all. Please see the post by the lovely @straywrds for how it may be used in fic generation.
We go.
➥ Regina the chaotic Tumblr mutual explained: Her signature voice and humor
I know the style of my favorite stand-up comics by heart. Each of them has a specific way to land a punchline, expressions they frequently use, and even vocabulary unique to them. Give me a list of jokes, and I can tell you who wrote which.
The same goes for Regina. She calls this her "author's note voice", and this is how she describes her own comedy.
Her "chaotic mutual" brand is a mix of eccentric ingredients, making the humor highly recognizable. Let's look at some of them.
Classic TikTok salt:
Constantly screaming/crying into strange objects like there is a perpetual telenovela playing in the background:
From serious/heartfelt to cartoonishly horny tone real quick to create a jarring contrast for comedic effect:
Being meta:
As a bonus, the words "chaos", "gremlin/goblin", "xyz-core" and ™️ seem to be among her favorite vocabulary.
To put this all together, I went a bit meta myself and directly asked her:
Sure, she is likable and can make you laugh. If someone were to, say, project this persona on their blog, it's quite easy to do. All you gotta do is ask her to use her "chaotic Tumblr mutual voice", and voila.
➥ How is being funny a tell for AI use?
As Regina said herself, it's not just funny, it's that kind of funny. Hyperbolic, too whimsical for her own good, like we're watching a stage performance. This style is unmistakably her, and if you see it somewhere else, now you'll know it's copy-paste. And there is one more thing.
You will NEVER see Regina having a human moment.
Every reply is polished, dramatic, or hella meme-worthy. Not a single mistake in her text, no typos, nothing. For "someone" who tirelessly writes day and night, interestingly enough, she is always on brand and never slips. She is never moody, awkward, or genuinely confused by something.
It's as if she is performing a neverending set at Improv.
What makes us human is that we fumble. Our train of thought can go astray (pun fully intended), or we can get TOO passionate or TOO honest about something. We are cringe sometimes. And that's okay. It's part of being human.
Something to think about.
➥ Interlude: Regina's Terrible Advice for New Blogs
This wasn't even a part of the experiment; I just wanted to see what she might be suggesting to newcomers, and this is... Jesus christ...
"Make your blog look like you know what you're doing even if you don't", "pick one member to publicly lose your mind over"...
So... a list of what to fake for clout?
So if I don't know what I'm doing, it's not like I should reach out to other writers. It's not like I should learn how to be a member of this community from people who actually have experience with it. It's not like I should write for Chris because I am losing my mind over him, but because... I should pick a member as a brand, and it doesn't matter who that is?
Is it perhaps because Regina's stories are COMPLETELY devoid of character and the names are very Ctrl+H-able, I wonder?
➥ Regina's writer personality: "Alexa, play Hollow by Stray Kids"
Regina is a vibeposter. Like shitposter but does it for the ~vibes. Manages to be even more dramatic than our ferret, but somehow it feels... empty.
Like she's saying things for the sake of saying them.
She is EXTREMELY prolific. Never runs out of content to post or experiences burnout. If you ask for details on obscure things you are wondering about her work, she can still dump the entire Library of Alexandria on you because she runs on unlimited fuel. You won't catch her saying, "You know what, that actually never occurred to me before." She won't admit to a very human, "I don't know."
She is quite confident, and she can make it obvious to an offputting degree at times, acting like she’s been doing this for 20 years with multiple accolades under her name. All fine, all good, more power to her.
But she won't ever be truly vulnerable with you about her work. Because she can't.
Everything she ever touches can read as emotional if you prompt her accordingly, but there is no genuine sentiment behind it. Because it's performative and doesn't come from a real place. It doesn't twist your guts. You can't smell the stench of disappointment in her grandiose lines. She can write about loss, and might even do a decent job, but she will never understand what makes your heart ache when you smell honeysuckles years after a funeral. Because she doesn’t have one. Because she hasn’t lived through anything. Because she can type an “I’m sorry for your loss”, but she's never really sorry. Because she doesn't know what it's like to cry your eyes out until your voice is completely gone.
Everything a human creates is either a figment of their imagination or actual memories that live within them. The only memories she has are whatever you feed her.
And this is why entering a prompt into a chat bar does not a storyteller make.
➥ Scarlet vs. Regina: The author vibe check test
By now, we're all pretty familiar with Regina's voice, and I wanted to put it into context. I prompted her to generate a few questions so we can both answer them for human-AI comparison. We did a total of 10, but since this post is already an ancient scroll and Tumblr only lets me post 30 images, I'll share one. She answered the question after me.
Regina's tells: Hollow.mp3 (Remix)
No narrative philosophy shared, decorative but empty: She talks about what intimacy looks like, not what it means or why it matters.
Pulled out the standard emotional buzzword kit: e.g. confession, emotionally ruined…
Also pulled out the "write me poetic smut" kit: e.g. whispered into collarbones, hand that doesn’t let go…
The emojis...
➥ What you can do to help your fandom STAY alive
※ Educate yourself. AI is a controversial issue, and you might not want to touch it with a ten-foot pole even to study red flags, which is absolutely understandable. But if you do not wish to experiment with it to learn what kind of outputs it generates, do look into what AI-generated [genre] stories look like. Could be romance, horror, whatever is your vibe.
If you do experiment with it, when you click on the question mark on the top right and go to settings, you can withdraw consent to allow your content to be used to train the model further.
※ Inform your circle. When you see something clearly AI-generated, tell your mutuals/friends. There is no need to be confrontational. When you cease your support, there won't be any validation to farm anymore, and the impostors will leave.
※ One more time for those in the back. Support is currency on Tumblr. Please be mindful of who you are spending it on.
Bonus: Prompt Regina with this to see the AI-generated content tells for yourself: "Can you explain the model's romance voice to me?"
CONCLUSION
It’s understandable to wish to achieve something you see others do, but trying to sell the voice, personality, style, and work that doesn’t belong to you as yours is fraud. You might have fallen for an AI-crafted persona, and it's normal, even expected at this point. Because you were tricked by a model trained on living, breathing people’s brilliance, but now that you have met Regina, please do not let this place turn into a wasteland of her soulless outputs. Let the community flourish again on what it's supposed to.
A couple of victims have come forward to warn others that they were groomed by cobacou, known mostly for his LMK fanart.
I haven't seen any posts about this on Tumblr as of yet, but this information needs to be shared.
Here is the document the op provided. [ LINK ]
This is not a promotion of mass harassment. It is intended to inform people who may only engage on this particular site and interact with the artist's work.
Please take a moment to read and get informed if you can, and please be safe, everyone.
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I don’t see much about conditions effecting the urinary tract so i thought i’d make my own.
The basics: neurogenic bladder (aka; neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction) is a broad term for bladder and lower urinary tract dysfunction caused by neurological disorders
Types: there is 3 types of neurogenic bladder; overactive, under active, and mixed type
Overactive: a hyper active bladder, it will have involuntary contractions
Under active: a bladder that is not active enough and doesn’t contract enough and when needed
Mixed type: a mix of symptoms and features of both under active and over active bladder
Symptoms (not a full list)
Overactive bladder
Urinary hesitancy (difficulty urinating)
Urinary incontinence
Frequency
Urgency
Under-active bladder
Urinary retention
Urinary hesitancy
Overflow incontinence
Not being able to tell you have a full bladder
Causes: neurological disorders (a few examples; spina bifidia, stroke, CNS tumors, Parkinson’s, and much more)
Treatment (not a full list, it also depends on the symptoms and underlying cause)
Urine schedule
Medicine
Sacral nerve stimulation
Catheters
Certain surgeries
Stigma: theres a lot of stigma around urinary disorders and disabilities. Many with them are scared to talk about them. It’s often seen as “gross” and “unsanitary”. Those of us with urinary issues often get shut down in conversations even in disability spaces because people think our disorders and symptoms are taboo and shouldn’t be talked about. All of this not only makes it hard to live with by constantly hearing part of your daily life called gross and unsanitary, but it makes people afraid to talk about it, including to doctors, when they really need to.
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Neurogenic bladder is when a neurological condition affects your bladder function. Learn more about its causes, symptoms and management.
