Distracing myself from the world burning I guess

Hi everyone,

I've come across a case on Ao3 recently that is really frustrating me so I just wanted to shoot this out there. This is an open warning, in case you do not wish to engage with AI-generated content that was not tagged as such.

In the Zoro/Luffy tag, there is currently a very active fanfiction which contains AI generated images alongside text which might be AI generated or not, at this point I don't know.

There originally was no disclaimer about the art being AI and the poster also didn't indicate it to people complimenting the art, instead just thanking them (although they didn't outright claim it was theirs). After being called out, they did add a disclaimer, then felt they were getting too much unfair backlash since they "are an artist but just don't have the time to draw for this fanfiction". They asked people for their thoughts, were not receptive to any input, and then proceeded to delete any comments mentioning the fact that the art is AI, as well as their disclaimer. Mind you, these were not hate comments but open discussions about the use of AI.

I find this deeply misleading and unfair to any potential reader. At this point, the poster is clearly trying to trick people that do not wish to engage with AI generated content into still reading the fan fiction. While I originally enjoyed the story itself, I at this point don't trust that it wasn't AI generated either, especially since the poster never responded to this distinction being made.