"Every Night I Save You.”

Continually updating the date on their work so it gets pushed to the top of the tag, without actually making updates. Not against the TOS, just HORRIBLE behaviour, absolutely rude as fuck, I will mute people who do this with zero hesitation. Everyone gets their turn at the top of the page, you aren't special. (Caveat: people whose work was in an unrevealed/anon collection, like for an exchange or event, get one free redate in my opinion, once their name is attached or the work is revealed. Otherwise stop redating your work to try and get more people to see it.)

Tagging "for reach" rather than based on the content of the work. Stop grabbing every single fandom that might be vaguely related (e.g. if you're writing Dracula fic, don't tag every single fandom with vampires in it). Don't tag your RPF as the FPF fandom too, "so more people will see it." (We will see it, and we'll mute you.) Stop tagging in the main character/relationship fields for characters who appear in one paragraph and never speak, or for relationships that are just implied in the background (use the Additional tags field for those if you want.) Tagging actively wrong fandoms is against the TOS and reportable, tagging inaccurate rels, characters, or additional tags is not against the TOS but just asshole behaviour.

Creating placeholder posts. "Story coming soon!" - go away, I'm muting you, I will never see your story. Against the TOS, reportable.

Treating the Archive like a personal journal, making updates just to complain about how mean people are being to you, or how you can't update this week because you're sick, or just repeating your fave ship name 1000 times or whatever. Put it on tiktok , tumblr, bluesky, whatever. Put a link to your social media in your profile or author's note. Non-fanworks are against the TOS.

Acting like it's weird to comment on older works. It's an archive. It's there to preserve fanworks for as long as possible. Those works are there for you to read. You can comment on them even if they're 10, 15, 50 years old. It's fine. If the author didn't want comments, they can disable comments. If they have comments turned on, assume they want you to comment.

Complaining that they want AO3 to recommend similar works to them based on their reading habits/preferences. No, you don't want this. You do not want AO3 to track your reading and push works it thinks might be similar to you, not least because good lord what a terrible idea. AO3 also doesn't want this, because it doesn't want to collect that information about you, because information it doesn't collect is information that can never be leaked or stolen. Learn how to search or perish.

Asking for a downvote button. Again, it's not social media, this isn't reddit, you don't need to downvote a fic you don't like, you can just backbutton away. There's no algorithm so you would just be using it to be a dick to the person who posted that work.

🧚‍♀️✨ The Mortifying Ordeal Of Spiraling Over Your Husband’s Terrible (In)Experience With Women by @livinginsunnyhell ✨🧚‍♀️

The one where Shane and Ilya run into Shane’s high school ex-girlfriend and Ilya gets really weird about it.

words: 15.7k

tw: sexual content

note: jealous Ilya does something to me. This fic has no right to make me giggle like I did 😂🫶🏻

It's not the liberals, the gays, the socialists, or the drag queens that are brainwashing our children.

hey, ao3 user i_hate_ai_fic

1. ai witch hunt is harming genuine writers as much as ai does, if not more. you are harming genuine writers as much as ai does, if not more.

2. ai was trained to mimic human-made works. if you think a work “looks like it was created by ai”, please ask yourself what you think ai was trained on and what you think it was trained to mimic.

3. re: this post and this post. you can never know for sure if a work was written by ai (no, ai checker doesn’t work, the machine itself is ai and unreliable). you can only guess based on vibes. so yes, there’s always a chance of you wrongly accusing a genuine writer who doesn’t use ai to create their works.

4. this is the exact reason genuine writers no longer share their works and why more and more genuine writers take their human-made works down.

5. no matter what you claim, I believe this can be considered harassment if what you’re doing results in people getting harassed, which is against ao3’s terms of service — meaning people can still report you for this.

with all that said, I believe this isn’t how collections on ao3 work anymore (so if anything, there’s a chance this is just troll/ragebait, which is shitty regardless). here’s how ao3 collections actually work now.

edit: apparently this is how they bypass ao3’s system

if you can, please make sure to give love, kudos, nice comments and support to works under this person’s bookmarks here.

This AI witch-hunt bullshit causes real and actual harm, guys. To people. Real people who write fanfic and post it for us for free. I’m gonna say it: I may hate AI and refuse to use it myself, but I would rather read an AI fic than engage in this AI hunting behavior.

In my RL work environment, I have a coworker who loves AI so much that her response to just about anything is “did you use AI for that?” As someone creative, I hate this and it offends me. But at least this woman is not being intentionally cruel when she asks—she isn’t accusing anyone of using AI or trying to catch someone in a lie or whatever else is happening in fandom, she just… Well. She’s not terribly creative herself.

AI was trained on fanfic. Also, some people do write obscenely fast; they may not have jobs, they may have insomnia, they may use speech-to-text, they might just be like one of my besties who regularly could churn out high quality 50k in one week during NaNo so used to make higher word count targets for herself.

Idk what else to say, but I hate the idea of ANYONE being made to feel so bad that they delete their work or hide it or worse, stop writing or sharing. I’m so mad about this that frankly? I’m about to ready to start supporting AI use in fanfic because the alternative is this kind of cruel and mean and malicious insanity. The only thing it does is hurt actual human people. AI itself and the AI companies don’t give a rat’s ass.

So if you’re tempted to accuse someone is using AI for fanfic or is you read a fic and think “is this AI?” ask yourself this: why does it matter? (Do not come in here to tell me all the ways AI sucks and hurts the planet, I know.) What purpose would it serve to ask or comment or accuse the author of using AI? How would you feel if someone did that to you?

But Sara, what can I do, then? The back button is right there. Close the tab. Don’t read the fucking fic or other fics by that author. “Oh but all their fics sound the same-” Yeah. Because people have distinct voices and writing styles.

Google just invested 75 million dollars in a partnership with A24... for AI film making.

Are you fucking kidding me?

All I can say, is please, for the love of god, make this the worst decision they've made thus far. Do not watch AI movies, watch real humans with real passion and real hate and real love telling real stories.

What is Earth without art??? Just a rock floating in space.

It's so private. No one will know.