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So I am by no means an expert, and there are probably better ways to do this, but I’ve had some success writing meta posts that source specific gifs and I wanted to share my tips, mostly because a few people have asked me how I always manage to find the ones I’m looking for.

This guide is using gifs from The Flash (DCTV) fandom as an example, but the concepts should transfer to anything you’re a fan of or searching for.

Also, special thanks to @marcomardon​ for teaching me some of the tricks in this post :D

the 100 + textposts ft affectionatesuggestion bellarke aka THEY GIVE ME A LOT OF FEELINGS

The 100 + text posts (5/?) 

But I wanna talk about the author for the commentor.

I was walking home. My day was hitting a low. I was having a “looks insignificant on the outside, but huge on the inside” kind of issue. And with each minute passing, I was just getting sadder and angrier. So angry. My plans to make dinner gone out the window. No way am I making food feeling pissed out of my mind.

"Do you think AO3 should ban AI generated works?"

Well, in theory, it may sound ideal. But in reality? No.

I am not a fan of AI, but "do you think AO3 should ban" never actually solves a problem. Because how can you tell what's AI and what's human made? It is extremely hard to tell, and going around accusing authors of using AI — just because you suspect they do — does more harm than good. Chances are that you're accusing real writer of being AI and ruining their day at best, making them quit writing at worst.

And the act of banning never stops something from existing. It only makes it more difficult to find or avoid. Tumblr bans porn, but you can still find porn on Tumblr. The only difference is that they're no longer tagged as porn, which means you're more likely to stumble upon them because blocking the tags no longer works when they are not tagged as porn.

The same applies to AI generated works on AO3. For now they are tagged as "AI generated". You can avoid them if you don't want them.

Once they're banned, people will no longer tag them as AI, which means you have more chance of unknowingly reading and leaving kudos on AI.

Also, no, unless an author says "this was written by AI" you cannot tell for sure if something was written by AI. Em dashes aren't evidence of AI. Long and overly described paragraphs aren't evidence of AI. Real human writers do write like this and AI was trained to mimic real humans' works.

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