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Popular leftist voice: These right wingers are fat! They don't eat their vegetables. They eat bland unseasoned food. They eat mac&cheese. They eat chicken nuggets. They eat French fries. They think Olive Garden is fancy. Virtuous leftists eat Virtuous diets that are both Virtuously nutritious and Virtuously sophisticated, and accordingly thin and fit!

Popular leftist voice: These right wingers are children! Everyone is 12. They resent being controlled. Their brains are immature. Virtuous leftists are mature enough to deserve autonomy, which they demonstrate by being mature enough to unquestioningly and uncomplainingly doing as they're told and not seeking autonomy!

Popular leftist voice: These right wingers are uneducated! They're illiterate. They read trashy books. They listen to audiobooks. They didn't go to college. They think 20 year olds are old enough to have children even though obviously enlightened leftists know that that's a college aged child who should be playing outside. At college.

Because there is no way to tell with 100% accuracy that a piece of writing was created by or with the aid of generative AI, and anything less than 100% accuracy is completely unacceptable, no nuance, no exceptions. You can tell with 100% accuracy if something is not a fanwork--like an ISO or placeholder post that does not contain a fanwork--and you can tell with 100% accuracy if a fanwork contains a link to a payment apparatus or is otherwise soliciting payment for fic in violation of the TOS, so these things can be disallowed and, when discovered and reported as violations, dealt with by PAC. And you can tell with 100% accuracy that a fic has been plagiarized, meaning that it has pulled entire passages word for word from another fic and this can therefore be detailed in a report in order for PAC to take action. (This is important to note because while generative AI is in fact The Plagiarism Machine, that can only be proven on the back end via the datasets used to train it. You can't actually look at generative output and tell which place the words were ripped from, because LLMs operate on statistical probabilities of word order, not actually pulling phrases wholesale from a specific work.)

But you cannot tell with 100% accuracy that a particular passage has been generated with AI.

And we are already seeing the problem with spurious AI accusations! People are claiming that 'excessive use of em-dashes' is a 'tell' for AI, when the only reason em-dashes exist in AI-generated output is because the machines were trained on human-generated writing that used them! (And as a writer who frequently ODs on em-dashes and italics, I find that particular 'tell' especially insulting. My overuse of em-dashes comes from my own brain, thank you very much.) So the only way to actually tell that someone on Ao3 is using AI to write their fic is if the admit as much up-front.

Guess what would happen if Ao3 decided to ban AI fics from the platform? Those fics would stop being tagged, and then we'd run into the exact same problems we had on FFN with fics being grudge-reported by bad faith actors, which was one of many reasons Ao3 was created in the first place--so that people couldn't do that.

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