i haven't seen anyone on tumblr talking about this, and it's likely just bc I'm not in the right circles, but a BUNCH of fics on ao3 were recently exposed as being AI written. and I don't mean "aha! the em dash - the similes - the not just x but y phrasing!", I mean the AI model claude leaves code artifacts when you copy/paste, and someone discovered how to make those easily visible. this has primarily been talked about in heated rivalry fandom but I'm certain it's hitting other fandoms as well
and a bunch of authors, who swore up and down that they did NOT use AI and they definitely wrote everything themselves, are scrambling for excuses, the most common one being "I just use AI to beta read! it's just for checking grammar and sentence structure!". so someone on reddit decided to see for themselves what claude "beta reading" is like:
holy shit, right? I've beta read people's fics before and had people beta mine, I have NEVER seen this kind of rewriting from scratch referred to as beta reading. this is just AI use with your first draft as the prompt.
anyway this is your reminder that it's actually fine if your fic doesn't read like "professional" prose. it's preferred in many cases! a beta reader is just someone in the same fandom as you who is willing to catch your typos and highlight sentences and comment "weird phrasing????", it doesn't have to be complicated! stop letting bots grind YOUR writing up into paste because you're scared of it not being good enough! it's fanfiction!
(the obvious reason many people would use AI in the first place is if they're trying to get into the "big fic to published work" pipeline. gotta have fast updates to get maximum kudos and flowery lines for fans to put in their bios.)
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