by the year 2000, we will experience vampire armageddon!

did you watch the fucking movie?

is the importance of thinking for yourself not one of the main takeaways from dead poets society? this includes writing fanfiction and creating art more broadly. being a fic writer of almost 4 years, i abhor the use of ai in any fandom; but in the dps fandom, it's almost worse because of the hypocrisy. how can you claim to be a fan of a movie which emphasizes the necessity of human creativity ("poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for"), and then turn around and use Plagiarism Robot 3000 in place of the artistic process? not only that, but to also fail to disclose that your "art" was made by a robot??? what would keating think, with his admiration for human-made literature? what about neil the thespian? todd the budding poet?

in my eyes, when you use ai to write fanfiction, you have reached the pinnacle of impatience. to be a fic writer is completely voluntary. it is not mandated upon every single person who wishes to join a fandom. if you dislike writing, or you consider yourself a bad writer, and you have no desire to try or improve... you can simply not write fanfiction. you can instead read and recommend the works of writers you admire. spend enough time in a fandom, some of these writers may become your friends! they may offer you advice, and you might be inspired to create fanworks with your own brain!

but instead of figuring out what the creative process looks like for you, mistakes and all, as every writer in the world has done, you decide that feeding your ego immediately is more important. all those kudos and comments -- would they have been left had the readers known the words on their screen were plagiarized? what about the dozens of fics written by hand that never got so much as a quarter of the love given to those written by a robot? isn't that completely unjust?

the rest of the poets' instagram pages (ft. keating)

(part 5/? of modern au!dps characters on instagram)