I know I just reblogged this but I think the really important takeaway here is that this techbro is not genuinely asking āhow can we improve fanfiction?ā What heās asking is āhow can we tap into this massive market?ā
I keep thinking about how many of these chat bots are freeāfor now. And of course they are! Itās a classic marketing technique when youāre trying to get your foot in the door with a novel product: let folks use it, let them get used to it, then start charging for it. You donāt have to look any further than streaming to see a very recent example of how this happens.
And itās going to happen with AI.
Thereās nothing these assholes love more than making money off of other peopleās hard work. But you canāt legally charge for fanfic! So how do you get around that? You charge for a chat bot (which you trained on other peopleās fanfic). You canāt charge for the content, but you can charge for the thing that produces the content.
AI is theft, and there are a whooooole lot of people gleefully looking to make a buck off of our hard work.
Donāt use AI, donāt feed AI your favorite fic writersā and artistsā work, donāt read AI fic, donāt engage with it. And if you do, well, I canāt force you to give a shit about other people, but AI is a paywall being built, brick by brick, between you and the things you love. Stop slathering on the mortar.
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