Honey Magic

Don’t try to misbehave

I feel intoxicated by the way we play

This stupid kids game

A stupid kids game

Image description: there is a black and white digital pencil illustration of James and Sherlock standing close together in dressing gowns. James stands on the left his gown sitting loosely on his body, his chest peaking out from the neckline and a rope sash bowed at his waist. His left foot is up on a footstool and he is leaning his body forward into Sherlock’s space. His face is blushing, a scattering of freckles across his cheeks and he grins with devilish delight. His left arm is reaching around Sherlock pulling Sherlock’s sash undone from behind. Sherlock is stood facing him, back as straight as an arrow. His hands are buried in his pockets and he is leaning back slightly, his expression one of curiosity, intoxicated by James proximity.

every single time I see these posts, there are always writers who say “this looks like how I write” and “what if my works sound like ai”. it’s discouraging to genuine writers to see a screenshot of a fic that is “obviously ai” and then wonder if their own human-made works “look like ai” too. it’s 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 “obviously ai” too.

no matter how “obviously ai” a fic looks, unless the author says they use ai, you can never know for absolute certainty that it’s ai. you assume. based on vibes. and there’s always a chance of you wrongly accusing a genuine, innocent writer and encouraging people to harass them. “real humans don’t write like this” 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? “most people can tell” 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. “not x, not y, but z” type of sentence? people have been using this for ages, way before gen ai became a thing. I’ve 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 isn’t english are wrongly accused of using ai in their fics because “real humans don’t like write that” — it’s 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 don’t like ai fics. I don’t 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 it’s impossible for anyone to filter them out. if you want to be able to effectively avoid ai fics by filtering them out, you’ll have to make sure people who use ai are comfortable enough to be honest about it.

I also want to say that no one “writes like ai”. it’s the other way around. ai writes like human, because that’s what it was trained to do. saying a human-made fic “reads like ai” is saying a work looks like its copycat.

Mary Bennet: You tried to colour my face with a highlighter cause you said I was important.

It was originally thought to be a plothole that Sherlock is described as having no literary knowledge, yet later quotes Walt Whitman and Shakespeare. But with Young Sherlock alluding to Sherlock picking up on Shakespeare from James, I feel like it would make sense to headcanon most literary references attributed to books James got Sherlock to read or directly quoted at him.