it's okay, it's okay, i will stop freaking out about ai fics now. they're normal, everyone knew this except me, or possibly they did not but assumed either they were the only one lying or that nobody was and they were just imagining things. i'm not even gonna try and work out who does and who doesn't now, cos it's widespread enough that it doesn't matter. i'm annoyed at all the lying when i frankly would have felt a lot better just to know, but my imposter syndrome has been instantly cured and actually it's really nice. i have not felt so calm and settled in months. i can think of writing a 900 word fic and it doesn't bother me, i know why this seems shockingly short to people these days and that i do not need to somehow add 2000 words of description to it and do that all in under an hour. this probably sounds sarcastic or something but it's true. i feel like i've ascended to a higher plane where so many odd mysteries suddenly make sense. i will no longer doubt my instincts on ai writing, i accept that i can see the patterns and probably a lot of the people who say they can't really can and just don't want to admit it because the lie fandom all agreed to is that nobody can ever tell. the angry reactions to the fact this isn't true, the overdone anger about 'witch hunts' and the refusal to accept even the most undeniable proofs are just people worrying they too will be caught. but it's okay, you probably won't be. a lot of people are doing it too, they just won't admit it, so there is no way they will ever accuse you.
and you know... i had wondered why everyone else seems to have been "falsely accused of writing with ai" but i, frequent poster of fic, never have been. it's not that i just don't read like ai fic, it's that half of you made that up to refer back to if a real accusation ever did arrive! bloody hell, you would feel better if you'd all just admit this or at least just... stop pretending nobody in fandom would ever use ai for anything ever. have you felt guilty about it and didn't know the others did it too? that's kind of fucked up, i feel bad for us all now.
for now i will encourage anon comments (don't worry i have no way to track those down lol) so we can discuss this openly for once. i will NOT slag you off if you used ai to write, i will not be naming any names in any discussion of it. you could maybe explain why you didn't tell me you all knew this though :( i'd also be interested to know what exactly you do to get a fic out of it, which i know will vary from person to person. you are also welcome to get mad and deny this is even a thing, but i'm wise to that now, while also very, very aware that some of us just don't know how common it is.
come, use these precious hours of 'calm nostalgia' to unburden yourself a bit.
look: i am fixed. i put everything back.
