why is that

My process is the same whether I know the author or not: I look at the summary and the tags, and read a bit, and go from there. Plenty of authors I love write stuff I won't be interested in. Plenty of authors I don't know will write things I like. The only way to know is to read it.

I find fics to check out by going through the tags. It's that simple. I also go through folks' rec lists, and bookmarks if they're public. That's p much it. I don't know where this idea came from that a high kudos/comments ratio means it's a good enough fic to try. It means it's a POPULAR fic. You may or may not like it, and it may or may not be 'good', whatever your requirements for that are.

Not only did this experiment prevent plagiarism, it also taught her students to become better writers and thinkers.

"No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers, or delete keys."

Concerning the AI papers she kept receiving: “What’s the point of me reading it if it’s already correct anyway, and you didn’t write it yourself? Could you produce it without your computer?”

From one of her students,

“ 'While writing the essay, I had to talk a lot more, socialize a lot more, which I guess was normal back then...it’s drastically different from how we interact within the classroom in modern times. People are always on a laptop, always on the phone.' Without a delete key and the ability to correct every mistake, he paused to think more intentionally about his writing."

"Most students found their pinkies weren’t strong enough to touch-type, so they typed more slowly, pecking at the keyboard with their index fingers."

Another student said,

" 'This thing I handed in had pencil marks all over it and definitely did not look clean or finished. But it’s part of the process of learning that you’re going to make mistakes'..."

All this in a college level foreign language class. I cannot imagine attempting to pass a language class using AI and then expect to somehow magically speak it! Why pay buckets of money to be taught something and then refuse to actually learn it?

"Remember when they told us every computer was going to crash on 1/1/01 and there would be chaos and then nothing happened?"

We don't talk about acid rain because there isn't any more acid rain because when acid rain started happening and we learned that the cause was mainly sulphur oxide and carbon monooxide from car exhausts, countries all over the world made it a law that car companies had to produce cars that produced less exhaust with better effectivenes (burning the fuel all the way to CO2 instead of the halfassed CO) and oil rafineries to remove the sulphur from the gasoline in the first place.

We don't talk about computers crashing because of the turn of the century, because thousands of programmers worked very hard to write updates and patches for Every Single Program humanity as a whole used back in 1999 and then somehow managed to failtest, distribute, and update every single device and system, be it an online or offline one before the midnight of the 1st january of 2000.

On a much smaller scale, no one ever commenta or notices cleaners and housekeepers doing their job - be it at home or at whole buildings - because they always make sure that there's nothing to notice. But don't be fooled - at any point of your life you are one week of them not doing away from swimming in trash and filth with nothing to eat and nothing clean to wear. Only then you would notice.

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For real though, anon, I think a lot of people could stand to go back to the actual comic this so-called test is from.

The point of the comic is that it's hilarious and sad how little is playing in your local theater that would make a good lesbian date movie.

It's from 1985, a peak sausagefest action movie era with a lot more casual rape for drama and even fewer speaking roles for women than now, even if mainstream Hollywood isn't that much better. (The franchises being parodied in the strip are Rambo, Conan the Barbarian, and Death Wish for those of you too young to instantly recognize them.)

Even once people took this "test" beyond the comic, the point was that this is a simple and effective shorthand for how skewed media is. "Wow, things can't even clear this bar that's buried in the floor!"

It's a way to illustrate the issue to dudes who have never thought about this before, for example. "Wow, this and this and this movie I remembered having good female characters don't pass because it's just one good character per movie. Who knew?"

Plenty of individual pieces of media that fail the test are far more feminist or progressive or world-changing than plenty of pieces that pass. It was never a meaningful test of whether a given piece of media is any good. (Do any of the women in The Battle of Algiers talk to each other? I'm sure there are a thousand examples like this.)

It's a synecdoche for broad trends in media that sideline female characters and perspectives. It's a critique of mainstream media in aggregate.

I'm sure you've seen people use it as a gotcha, but those people are morons.

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I'm not clear which flavor of dumb discourse about gendered stats you're espousing or pushing back against.