People have said the tag is unique to Claude only and therefore there’s no way a human-made fic could have gotten wrongly flagged as AI. But how accurate and trustworthy worthy this is, really? Even IF, hypothetically, this method is proved correct 99 times out of 100, that still means “there is 1 time out of 100 times where a human-made fic is wrongly flagged as AI due to an error”. And that to me nullified the credibility of the whole doc. Like, sorry for not trusting another newly-introduced machine and for being skeptical about it.

“But how could the tag get there if the author didn’t use AI?” Besides the possibility of an error, I can already see people weaponize this method by faking screenshots of fics that are about the ships or topics that they hate to make it look like these fics have Claude tag in them, and then spreading those fake screenshots around. And the worst part is that authors cannot prove their innocence because people would just say “they got caught so now they removed the Claude tag from their fics”.

Like. I hate AI, but I hate witch hunts, accusations and harassments more.

These comments below sum it up really well.

Almost like the people who claim they want to avoid actually want the opposite. They spend so much time and effort to try to detect AI that they could be spending reading because... idk actually. Maybe it's another weird purity thing where you're eternally tainted by seeing something "bad." Maybe they're addicted to the rush of feeling morally superior for five seconds on the internet and have discovered a new way to fill that hole.

It's so painfully clear that they want to find as much AI as possible for some reason. These are not people engaging with fandom for fun, they're here to destroy.

For example, antis posting screenshots of dark fics because they feel entitled to do whatever it takes to get a work taken down or avoided.

I don't think anything good comes from those AI-tracking site skins.

Even if someone used AI, maybe it wasn't generative AI at all — maybe it was just AI assistance, like a grammar checker or translation help. Yet they still get flagged as "AI." And that shouldn't happen.

If someone writes their own fic, uses their own ideas, but isn't a native English speaker and needs help with translation or grammer, they get treated the same as someone who typed a prompt into AI, had it write the entire story, and then posted it as their own work. And those are not the same thing.

Sure, people will argue that they should just get a beta reader. But not everyone feels comfortable having a beta reader.

Instead of witch-hunting and turning our backs on fellow shippers, we should focus on making fandom spaces a positive place again.

If someone feels uncomfortable reading a fic, suspects it was written with AI, or even knows that it was written by — or with the help of — AI, they should just click back out and move on.

Mute writers. Block writers. Don't harass and expose them because you have a problem with what they do in their free time as a hobby.

It's not like they cheated on a job application or are getting paid for their work. This is fandom. It's supposed to be about having fun.

If someone has fun typing a prompt into AI and getting a story out of it — let them. You (not you personally, the general "you") don't have to like it. You don't have to read it. You don't have to engage with it.

Just stop with this red-flagging shitshow.

If someone uses the site skin so they can avoid reading AI fics, fine. But everything else that comes with the use of that site skin does far more damage to fandom and fanfiction spaces than the AI fics themselves.

I'm honestly tired of opening fandom spaces and seeing everything turn into arguments, accusations, callout posts, and harassment campaigns. It's exhausting. Fandom used to be about sharing what you loved. Now it sometimes feels like people are more interested in policing each other than creating things.

(Sending this anon for obvious reasons.)

assuming this is about the document that can flag if a fic was copied and pasted from claude

—> this post <— also sums it up really well.

I think it’s great if there’s a tool that can tell for absolute accuracy if a fic is ai (not just 99.99% accurate but 100% accurate, and so far I’m not completely sure if a glitch or an error won’t make a human-made fic turn red somehow, or if it won’t make the tag show up in a human-made fic somehow, I’m not tech savvy and I don’t really trust any newly introduced machine) without opening a door for witch hunt and harassment. and unfortunately as helpful as this new ao3 skin may be, it’s also led to dozens (or hundreds, or more) of people being doxxed and harassed.

no, I am not a fan of ai fics, but I will never condone harassment. and like you said, at the end of the day fanfic is a hobby, and how one chooses to spend their free time is none of my business. do I agree with an ai writer who chooses to let ai write fics for them? no. but that is not my business and it certainly doesn’t mean I think they deserve to be harassed.

not to mention how easy it is for someone to fake a screenshot of a human-made fic, that has no claude tag in it, to make it look like it has claude tag in it and then spread the screenshot around. and the author can’t even prove their innocence because people will just say “you removed the tag after you got caught”.

one more thing, I actually think people are more scared of having accidentally read and supported an ai-generated fic, and therefore they are no longer “morally pure”, than they care about the ethical aspects of ai and how it can be harmful, and I say this as someone who does not like ai-generated fics and will avoid them if they’re properly tagged. if I read a fic that is not tagged as ai and if I suspect it was done by ai, I’ll just quietly exit the fic. but I don’t think I’ll be using that skin — because 1. I don’t know if a glitch or an error could result in a false positive somehow 2. if I choose to use the skin to see if my suspicion is right and if the fic turns red, then I will never stop using it (even though I’d never harass anyone). and reading fanfics is a form of self-care to me, and like, I want to read them because I am actually enjoying them and having fun. I don’t want to constantly be paranoid about accidentally exposing myself to ai-generated fics. that’s not what self-care and having fun are supposed to be.

so if you (general you) want to use the skin, then good for you (as long as you don’t harass anybody). but me, personally, I choose to enjoy art the exact same way I’ve been enjoying it for years, back when gen ai wasn’t a thing — by really letting myself have fun without ai paranoia or witch hunt. if I’ve accidentally read and supported an ai-generated fic, without knowing that it’s ai, then I will never have to know that. and the joy I feel when I read the fic stays with me forever.

this is the Phoenix zoo, she's got plenty of outdoor space 👍

It's, it's just that dragons are the primordial embodiment of avarice wrought into fire and flesh. They are truly, supernaturally good at finding large amounts of valuables, that's why the big mines hire those Dragon Scouts to go sniff out their lairs and mark them on the maps as potential mining ventures. You know, in case someone slays the relevant dragon. Which doesn't happen often because, milord, they are simply not that easily slain.

No I know you've hired many knights, blooded warriors and true. Yes, I was there when you gave the ten most impressive ones their special sashes. Very grand, very high honors, of course. Ehm. It's just, none of them have ever actually faced a dragon. Yes no I know Sir Edbert says he did but Sir Edbert is rather notoriously prone to exaggerated and tragically unverifiable tales---

Well no milord of course I would not doubt the word of a sworn knight. Perhaps his sobriety, but not his word, as such.

The point is that the grand treasury, while surely grand and a very special notion, is just... it is mayhaps not the ideal way of handling the realm's finances? Perhaps a series of smaller vaults, capped well below the dangerous wealth threshold at which gold is known to whet the appetite of colossal winged harbingers of death, in different corners of the realms or...?

No, I, yes well I do realize that will impede anyone's interests in coming into the vault to hurl around the gold coins and go "whee, I'm so rich!" I am aware of its deficiencies as a plan in that regard. No, I see I've misjudged a few things.

Actually, thinking on it, milord, I truly believe what you need is a fresh set of skilled wizards on this job. The court magician and I, we cannot keep up with your visionary thinking. We're too old-fashioned. But the wizards revolutionizing the eldritch academies seem to be more on this sort of level. I hear they've made some truly remarkable choices in terms of outsourcing all of their spellwork to the Ever-Whispering Void, such that it takes mere minutes for them to set up an entire defensive array. That's just the sort of innovative thinking you require.

Ideas I've had so far:

A gold plated wine opener with her name engraved on it

some kind of classy-but-cunty Christmas decor. Something chi-chi and sparkly that's giving "oh, it's Christmas, bitch"

one of those instax mini cameras in a color like "blossom pink" because you know this diva scrapbooks

those little bone china Tiffany's cups that are made to look like cheap disposable paper cups but they're Tiffany blue and they say "Tiffany's" on them (because you know this diva is obsessed with Tiffany's)

a Swarovski birthstone bracelet because you know this diva actually gives a shit about her birthstone

It's going to have the gold plated wine opener with her name on it. It's going to have a scented candle. It's going to have a Lush bath bomb. It's going to have the pinkest loofah you can find. It's going to have a moisturizing face mask. It's going to have a little sign for her to hang on the bathroom door that says "Don't interrupt my ✨Diva Time✨" in glittery writing. It's going to have a sand-etched wine glass that says "Live, Laugh, Love, Drink Wine In The Bath". It's going to have some Lindt chocolate truffles. It's going to also have a sparkly christmas ornament and i trust you to pick one that fits the general theme here. If you still need to fill it in, you're going to add a gift card to Sephora or, if you would like bonding opportunities, a little envelope with a hand-written "gift card" for "[Spa day/mani-pedis/whatever] with your Favorite Sister-in-Law, you choose the day <3". Maybe also some cute scrapbook stickers.

for Inevitable, Emma doesn't have a spotlight on her until the end. because until the end, the point is that Emma's alone now. only Paul gets a spotlight, it's Paul's song, Paul is the focus, Paul is being celebrated. Emma's fear, her attempts to escape, don't matter, she doesn't need to be lit. Paul's corpse basks in the light, flaunting how separated they are now, while Emma runs and screams in the shadows. Emma's not part of the show, Paul is.

- when you’re jay walking, cars will actively accelerate bc the drivers want to kill you for breaking the rules

- servers in restaurants act very scared and apologetic, so maybe people aren’t nice to them here??? or I could be terrifying

- it’s really cute when little kids have British accents, but I’m unmoved by adults with accents

- extremely good gluten free options. this country is like 20 years ahead of Canada in that regard

- people will give random insignificant buildings names with little plaques. and then that’s the name that shows up on the map. like even a smaller than average family home, you can name it like it’s a dog

- lots of brick and stone buildings. looks cute and charming until you enter one and there’s no air conditioning

Boy am i glad that the con has a facebook page so i can post this photo: