some of y’all will be engaging in witch hunt, accusing writers left and right and then wondering why more and more writers take their works down and don’t share them with you ungrateful losers anymore.
“this fic looks like it was created by ai” yeah that’s because ai was trained on human-made works and it was trained to mimic human-made works.
you claim you hate ai because ai harms real artists, yet you are out there accusing and harassing artists because “their vibes just aren’t right”. at this point, you are the ones who cause more harm — to art and the writing community — than ai does.
you are the ones killing art and writing community, the community you want to “protect against ai”.
so at this point, you’re killing the community faster than ai is. good luck when the community you want to protect has no human-made work left because you accused and harassed genuine artists/writers away and the only things that are left for you to read are actual ai-generated fics.
if you think a fic is ai and if that bothers you like it does me, quietly exit the tab and avoid their future works like a normal, decent person. because with every "this fic looks ai" comment, there's always a chance of you wrongly accusing an innocent writer and further harming the writing community as a whole.
Check out the account of the commenter. Do they have any works of their own? Any bookmarks? How old is their profile? There are so many different scams going on right now. If the commenter is new they are likely trying to scam you into abandoning the fic so they CAN scan it for AI. And if they're an older account (pre 2025ish), then they're harassing you without facts, so you should report the commenter to AO3 for harassment.
Seriously.
Report these assholes.
I have reported multiple "oh your fic is great can I turn it into a comment?" accounts (because they are creating registered accounts) and it takes a few days, but AO3 does shut down the accounts.
Make life hard for jerkoffs and thieves.
