actually all these people defending ai “authors” like it’s their job make me just as sick as the ai users. generative ai is unquestionably killing the planet and depriving communities of basic resources, the people using it to write fanfic deserve nothing but bullying and shame
I’m sorry but I can’t help but think that the folks deleting their fics and getting off AO3 "because this is getting too stressful" were using AI and just fear getting caught when a new AI detection method is discovered
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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.
For the record: your fic doesn't need to be perfect. Make grammar mistakes, mess up spacing and spelling, write a sentence that's a bit awkward and leave it there if you can't think of another way to phrase it. Flaws, even with beta readers and backups, are NORMAL.