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I have zero grace for people who use this specific type of ai, because while creativity is hard and many creatives struggle for years to produce even one single thing, ai is nothing but stolen work that those same hardworking, yearning, and agonizing creatives put in.

The type of ai used to write fic or any sort of writing, is not something conjured up out of thin air by the computer. It’s an amalgamation of work created by actual people. Ai books and fics are trained on real work belonging to real authors, and the generator does nothing but throw all that fed info into a mixing bowl and plucks out whatever relevant parts it needs from these thousands of stories if not millions, and rearrange them into something new. So why have grace for that? It’s stolen intellect.

Sure the servers will run anyway, but if you’re not willing to at the very least call out and shame folks at the lower level using it to make even one person less inclined to do so, which eventually leads to lower use and lower sales thus less interest from the masses which tends to always turn into less funding by the capitalists, then what’s the point?

You approve of generative ai on some level and that’s your right, but, “How will they cope if it goes out of stock?” is a naïve position to take. Because so long as you say, “It’s fine, because they’ll be at a loss once the servers crash.” does not mean anything for the present.

It’s a true statement, of course, but if people are even passively encouraged to write with ai for the next decade for example, and authors and filmmakers and animators and clothing designers and graphic designers and so on get rich by “prompting” a generator to mix them up a bowl of other people’s ideas, with no creative effort put in of their own, then does it matter if in a decade, the server is gone? No. They’re already rich and living a better life than the struggling creatives who are dying in the same places these data centers are being built.

So while I can have grace for people not realizing they’re consuming ai to an extent, and I do understand that ai could work in some regard, I don’t think it being allowed into the creative field makes any sense. Generative ai should be used to conjure up scenarios and prognosis in the medical and science field, when trying to find cures and vaccinations, so that we can stop testing as much on humans and animals. Generative ai should be used to try and predict weather disasters and how search and rescue teams could operate. It can be used scholastically to create unbiased (to some degree) curriculums.

Generative ai should not be used to write scripts and books, to bring deceased actors back to life, or to “recreate” police footage and photos. All the information these servers collect is built off of data of real people, stealing our creative intellect and physical likeness. Ai like this mimics personhood. It mimics life to the best of its ability, which is theft. Because as I explained above, ai writing is a mixture of other people’s stolen intellect, whereas ai medicine/science would not be taking from someone’s personhood. It!d be using the collected data to narrow down commonalities in a virus or disease to better treat humanity as a whole. Recreating deceased loved ones steals their autonomy. Enhancing extremely blurred images leaves too high an error window to deliver false positives, resulting in potential false imprisonment. Whereas using collected data to create lesson plans and such could help educators narrow down exactly what their districts need for funding, for example.

However, I want to say, a lot of people are currently doing this holier than thou thing where they pat themselves on the back for not being “fooled” by ai fic, and saying, “If you read actual good books you’ll never be tricked.”

That’ not true.

There is no way in hell the thousands of reads and recs these fics are getting, is because the 3k, 6k, or 10k+ readers are all people who can’t catch on to ai. A lot of them are undoubtedly very well read folks who got fooled, or people who also like myself, enjoy very well written works and trash work.

Fan fiction has been part of my life for nearly 20 years. Using ai to write fic is an extremely recent thing. Do you know what not recent? Poorly written fic. Fic with grammar so bad it feels like a joke, fic that uses a big word every five seconds to the point where you can’t enjoy it because you gotta break out a thesaurus, fic that is overly flowery to the point of it making no sense, fic that is so blandly written it feels “soulless”. Fic with so much space between paragraph breaks it takes a week to reach the next sentence, fic built of brick walls, fic where there is nothing but dialogue, fic with no dialogue at all, fic with a character description of damn thesis length, fic where we could be talking to Casper with how thin their descriptions are. Fic in which nothing even mildly relates to canon so it could easily be an original work, fic that over explains canon every ten words, fic that never uses character names, fic that only uses character names, and so on and so on and so on.

Now, keep in mind, I do completely understand why it’s important to bring attention to fic authors who are using ai. It’s a stupid thing to do, it’s killing the earth, and it robs people who are putting in the work; both as writers and of readers. Using ai to create anything harms actual artists, because now everyone thinks they can do a thing and make the money and gain popularity, and sure, in fandom spaces you can. Even as it continues to try and infiltrate Hollywood, but real art can’t be fabricated.

Yea, it may harm the animation industry the most, which is also terrible, but it won’t work with live action in the long run, which will hopefully phase it out of animation too, then eventually out of writing and painting and such. When it comes to fan fiction, however, where the stakes are lower yet can be done undetected for a long time, there is no reason for people to pretend like they are superior to anyone for catching on to an ai written work before others.

All the things I listed above are things I’ve seen used over the months, as proof of ai assisted or completely written works, yet they are not always a tell. All the things I listed above are things I have encounter over two decades of reading fic. Heavy use of the ‘em dash, heavy use of ellipses, heavy use of, “It’s not… but…”, filler words being left behind and more.

For example: “It’s not that Shane wanted to leave Ilya that night— they’d always said they wouldn’t walk away angry— it’s that Shane had to. He was hurt and confused, and he had a right to be… right? So as Shane walked along the road— for what felt like a long time— he refused to think about his hurt… his heart, until a loud collision of some sort broke him out of his spell.”

Does that paragraph evoke much emotion or intrigue? No. Does that paragraph flow? No, it reads like an idea of a scene more than one Shane is experiencing. However, did I use ai to write it? No.

That paragraph is a basic first draft meant to hold the place of something more descriptive and urgent, and eventually less wordy. Those types of mistakes are often left in fics, although not to this extreme, because some writers can’t write beyond that level and don’t take writing seriously enough to develop, because fic is merely a hobby (which is fine), and others mainly just skip it by accident during rewrites.

Point I’m making is, yes, call out ai fics if you know for certain they are ai, but stop belittling people for not caching on or for promoting ai fics when they didn’t know. It’s not insane that some folks just don’t catch it, because they think it’s simply bad or mediocre writing. Which is okay! It’s okay to be a bad writer, because that is how you get better. What these ai witch hunts will only truly serve to do, though, is scare people away from being bad writers, thus people stop wanting to write for fun. Which we don’t want!

All in all, I’m 100% positive I’ve read ai fic at some point. I think two or three a couple of months ago were called out that I’d read and enjoyed or thought was alright for how mid it was written, but I finished them and moved on. Did I know they were ai? No. Did I suspect other fics could be? Yes, and if that suspicion persisted, I exited out. I didn’t go searching for ai detectors, though, because that would simply take forever, and I refuse.

Also, unrelated, but would you still be entertaining asks about bts/jikook going forward? I initially followed you for bts and am not sure how into the fandom you are at this time.

Thank you for your kindness!

I don’t know yet if I will watch s2. I want to, because I really enjoyed s1 and the books, and s2 will have all the meatiness from TLG, but right now I’m really put off by everything happening. I still can’t really stomach Connor, and his team got him silent af, so I don’t think there’s any point in hoping for anything really. I’ll just see what happens when it happens.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov Characters: Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov Additional Tags: Short One Shot, Short & Sweet, One Shot, 100 Drabble Challenge, 100 words or less, Twitter Prompt, prompt, Bottom Shane Hollander, Top Ilya Rozanov Summary:

In exactly 100 words, read about how Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov can’t get enough of each other.

Honestly, I’m just going to move on. I don’t know Connor nor what’s in his heart, obviously, but I don’t want to sit around wondering if he’s actually some weirdo.

I don’t even know if I want s2 after all this, because on one hand, he’s maybe just a regular dude who at most doesn’t care about the tragedies of the world and would rather laugh and use them for entertainment. On the other, he’s fake as hell and knows exactly what he’s engaging with and agrees with those beliefs. Either way, I currently am not looking forward to seeing him play a character I really like. I’m not looking forward to seeing him and Hudson reunite, because after all of this, I know I’m going to start looking at Hudson sideways too, which isn’t fair to him.

This is Connor’s mess and it’s understandable for Hudson to be civil and do the job he’s contracted into, but we already know Jacob and Crave aren’t going to recast Ilya. I also don’t think Crave will cancel the show since it’s already in pre-production for s2, and the show is massive. Lesser shows have continued with worse, and actors often work with co-stars they aren’t friends with.

Hudson as far as we know, loves and cares for Connor, and until we learn differently, views him as a best friend. Presumably, that means he’ll likely be seen buddied up with him on set. As such, I know this will be brushed over, and whether Hudcon Besties are used for promo or not, Connor will be present. So while I do want to continue supporting Hudson, barring he says or does something crazy too, I don’t think I can do that while still seeing Connor content. I need to change my algorithm and tap back in once s2 airs, if I still find myself interested.

That said, I also think it’s time for me to move on from running a fan blog anyway. I’m too old and it always leads to the same situation; me becoming disillusioned about someone or something related to my interest, and no longer finding joy in talking about the topic. I truly hope Connor has an explanation, but until then, I’m too creeped out by the thought of who he might truly be, and it’s taking up too much space in my head. I can’t ignore it and forget, but I don’t have let it dig into my skin either.

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