probably a controversial opinion but I think screenshotting someone elseās fic and posting it elsewhere because itās āobviously aiā is also harmful to the writing community youāre trying to protect. because
every single time I see these posts, there are always writers who say āthis looks like how I writeā and āwhat if my works sound like aiā. itās discouraging to genuine writers to see a screenshot of a fic that is āobviously aiā and then wonder if their own human-made works ālook like aiā too. itās discouraging to genuine writers to have to live in constant fear and worry if someone will screenshot their human-made fics and put them on blast for being āobviously aiā too.
no matter how āobviously aiā a fic looks, unless the author says they use ai, you can never know for absolute certainty that itās ai. you assume. based on vibes. and thereās always a chance of you wrongly accusing a genuine, innocent writer and encouraging people to harass them. āreal humans donāt write like thisā do you know literally every single human being to say for absolute certainty that none of them write like the machine that was trained on millions of human-made works to look and sound like humans? āmost people can tellā no, no one can tell unless authors disclose their use of ai. most people guess. based on vibes. every ai telltale is something humans actually write, otherwise ai would never have been able to mimic it in the first place. short sentence stacking? some people prefer it as a stylistic choice. ānot x, not y, but zā type of sentence? people have been using this for ages, way before gen ai became a thing. Iāve been using it in my writing for almost a decade, way before gen ai became a thing. em dash? you mean proper grammar? not to mention how often people who are autistic and people whose native language isnāt english are wrongly accused of using ai in their fics because āreal humans donāt like write thatā ā itās super offensive and harmful.
even if someone says they use ai, the right thing to do is to not read their fics and leave them alone if it bothers you. I donāt like ai fics. I donāt agree with people who let ai write for them. but I will always condemn harassment. no matter what. also not to mention, if you harass someone for being honest about using ai and tagging their fics as such, chances are that they will stop tagging their future ai-generated fics as ai, meaning no one can know for sure if the fics are ai, meaning itās impossible for anyone to filter them out. if you want to be able to effectively avoid ai fics by filtering them out, youāll have to make sure people who use ai are comfortable enough to be honest about it.
I also want to say that no one āwrites like aiā. itās the other way around. ai writes like human, because thatās what it was trained to do. saying a human-made fic āreads like aiā is saying a work looks like its copycat.
last but not least, harassment, accusations, speculations and witch hunt harm the writing community as much as ai does. if not more.
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