gnawing at the bars of my enclosure

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Actually yeah, I will make this a thing:

Hot take: you do not have the right to go into someone’s comments and accuse them of using AI just because you think their writing “looks suspicious.” You do not have the right to run their work through some unreliable AI detection tool and treat the result as proof or absolute. There are few things more harmful than these witch hunts, and few things more insulting to genuine writers after they spend hours, days, weeks, or even months working on their fics. Yes, AI generated fanfiction exists. Yes, some of it may seem obvious. But unless the writer openly admits it, you will never actually know. I do not care how many “signs” you think you see. Pattern recognition is not evidence. Vibes are not evidence. AI detectors are not, and never will be, evidence. They are tools with serious known flaws, and using them to publicly accuse people is deeply irresponsible. You have every right to block someone. You have every right to stop reading a fic. You have every right to decide what you personally do or do not want to engage with. What you do not have is the right to publicly accuse someone of something you cannot prove. Witch hunting AI does not make you a good person. It does not make you a protector of your fandom. It does not make you morally superior. It just makes you someone who is willing to hurt real writers in your pursuit of feeling righteous. And honestly, these superiority complexes are what is ruining spaces like AO3. Not just the fear of AI, but the growing belief that suspicion is enough to justify cruelty. Real authors are being chased out, discouraged, and humiliated because people would rather accuse first and think later. There is nothing inspiring about that. There is nothing noble about it. This obsession with claiming the moral high ground, even at the cost of genuine writers, is exhausting. It disgusts me, we are already not entitled to the work fanfiction authors give out and now they must fear accusations if they do post.

things I won’t let ai take away from human writers