Fine, you've stated your reasons for posting this on an anonymous sideblog, whatever. I'm happy to stand ten toes down on my own views here, even though some of them are not that popular. You say that you're not one of the people who posted this, but are you connected with them? If so, are you willing to disclose that?

Why would the creators of this document not put any additional care into investigating the placement and frequency of AI usage in the listed fics? I'm not a fan of AI in any capacity, but to me there's a huge difference between using it for translation, formatting code, etc. rather than using it to generate actual writing. Is that what's happening for any of these works? I don't know, I have not yet had time to dig into the source code for all of them, but I'm not the one making an enormous callout post.

ETA: at least one of the called-out fics clearly just used Claude to generate the appropriate code to format something to look like a recipe. Again, this is a judgment call, but I find this infinitely less upsetting than someone using AI to generate fanfiction.

Corollary: why was it helpful to call out these specific popular authors? To generate hype for these posts? I think making the skin is great, because it allows readers to make choices about what they're engaging with, but archiving receipts and downloading copies of all of these in advance means that you spent a lot of time looking at the works of these specific authors and planning this. Why? If you could take the time to do that, why couldn't you take the time to look more critically at your own findings.

To be exquisitely clear, I do not personally want to read things that are generated by AI. If I suspect that something is AI-generated, I mute the author and don't recommend the fic. However, I'm not at all convinced that this is a good-faith effort at transparency in fandom, and I'm not going to assume that it's been posted by people with good intentions until I get a better explanation of all of this.

Do I like gen-AI? No. Not even a little bit. I fucking loathe gen-AI. I hate that we even live in this timeline.

However, I do not particularly trust a post that calls out one of the most well-known authors in a fandom for two instances of formatting (in 100,000 words, and it's for formatting a recipe of all things) instead of literally anyone else in the document (like the previously mentioned 1,100 times in 61,000 words)?

Also, they say not to contact any of the authors, but specifically call them out by name? So, instead of reaching out and starting a healthy communication with someone and going "hey why did you use this for formatting, did you not know there are other ways to learn, here's some resources"; instead, one decided to put everyone on blast as though using AI for formatting and using AI for writing an entire fic are the same level of wrong.

Callout posts where the people being called out have not been contacted for comment don't accomplish anything but hate and vitriol.

I do not trust someone who had all this data, and then specifically used it to take two of the most popular fics on the list, despite not being the most prolific AI users in the doc by a longshot, to make their promo tweet about a skin they made.

I think the skin is useful! It's definitely something I would like to implement. But I also don't trust someone who takes the time to gather this much data, just to blast only two of the popular fics on the list to promote their new product.

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