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This was prompted by me and my boyfriend discussing handedness and being able to tell apart left and right. And me, being ambidextrous, was baffled by how do people with an obligate dominant hand mix up which side is the one with their Writing Hand and which one isn't?? And my boyfriend pointed out that I go "turn left - no I mean right" so much when giving directions that I have lost my navigator privileges.

I argued that mixing up the words isn't the same thing as mixing up the directions. Like if your mom accidentally called you the dog's name doesn't mean that she literally can't tell you apart from the dog. And he looked at me like this

They just kissed. Once.

Deleted the fic, not because of the rancid comments but because I wrote it drunk so it sucked ass and I don't care enough to fix it

Love MCYT fancops (/sarcasm)

bro we gotta love people who dont know anything other than 0 or 100, like...... LMAO

BUT ALSO to all my fic writers who dont know about it! if you want to keep writing, it's ok!! all you need to keep posting on ao3 while keeping your privacy from the fancops is our lord and saviour

Boundary: A restriction on content or material in order to adhere to someone's comfort level. IE a character only able to be portrayed in a manner the creator/author/actor pre approves of. Character cannot be displayed or implied to smoke cigarettes, for instance.

Another example may be an author not wanting fan-works to be created of their works at all.

Examples of Private/Cultivated Space: Source material wikipedia page, creator/author's community discord, events such as in person conventions and meet and greets with the boundary setter.

Examples of public/fandom spaces: Social media sites, private fan community discords, zine coordination threads, private blogs, physical material shared through mail or hand gifted to other fans.

(Side definition, RPF: 'Real Person Fiction'. Depictions made using the likeness and identity of a real person, with or without consent from the depicted party. Examples: A story about the Beatles going on a road trip. A comic strip about your high school math teacher getting tied to the rail road tracks.

RPF is not being discussed in this poll.)

I am anti-genAI, especially in creative fandom spaces, but I'm even bigger against witch hunts and harassment. Because that's all what this "exposed authors" document list (and future lists) is going to do. It doesn't matter if there's a big disclaimer about NOT attacking the people listed. The internet will do what the internet does nowadays and backstab anyone they deem unworthy, especially toward ones that they've been given the greenlight to attack. The obsession and paranoia about wanting to make sure that every single fandom creation is not made with AI is, quite frankly, getting out of fucking hand. No, I don't want to read AI works. But I don't have enough time in the day or much less the ability to care about checking. If I suspect something is amiss, I'll just do the fandom of old: Don't Like, Don't Read. Don't Like? Don't Engage. Hit the back button.

No one owes anything to anyone. No photo proof. No video proof. No screenshots or anything else.

There are people out there using grammarly to edit their work because English might not be their first language, or they don’t know enough people to find a beta, or they’re dyslexic, or god knows how many other reasons.

There are people out there who are on the spectrum and their written work reads like ChatGPT because that’s how their brain works. There are people out there who are so goddamn skilled at what they do, others struggle to believe it’s real.

Do you know who else was like that? Michelangelo. Do you know *how many people* have stood in front of the statue of David and thought *how the fuck did any human create that?*

There are soo many telented people out there who are infinitely better than you, be it written word or drawn image, or hell, even a photoshopped picture. Just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean it’s impossible to do.

Stop adding to the witch hunts. Stop trying to cancel people loudly.

If you don’t like it, don’t read it.

It's impossible to detect whether text was created by AI because the patterns AI writing follows come from human writers

Because I don't expect people to go to another link, here's the short version, as per the thread:

"When a Claude-generated response is pasted directly into AO3 from Claude, the text is wrapped by a Claude-injected code “font-claude-response-body”. Its presence indicates the use of Claude definitively. Its absence does not rule it out."

THIS is what the skin checks for. That is ALL it does. Here, the skin's code in my own skin editor:

If "font-claude-response-body" exists in the work, the skin turns the page an obnoxious bright red.

This is not something that can accidentally end up in the work or something that indicates that oh, the person just used an AI-powered spell-checker or something. It only checks for this one thing and nothing else: whether they directly copied something from Claude into the AO3 text editor. I frankly don't see how this could produce "false positives" when it's set up properly, but I'm only willing to give this tool a pass because it's so transparent about how it works and what it does.

I dislike witch hunts as much as the next person and in an ideal world people would be transparent about their use of genAI in whatever capacity they used it and people could decide if they want to engage with their works or not, but right now that's not the case.

While I was testing the skin it flagged two works (which, when I checked the site's HTML to verify, both included a lot of sections copy-pasted from Claude) and both of them had plenty of anti-genAI tags, loudly broadcasting an anti-genAI stance and claiming to be entirely man-made, because it turns out that a lot people don't want to read what the plagiarism machine spat out and the people writing their stories with the plagiarism machine are lying because they don't want to lose potential readers.

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.