#batbugspeaks

hi there!

while i said i am on hiatus, i did decide to log onto tumblr just to make sure i wasn't missing anything important, and i'm glad i did.

while i think it's important to call out authors who use AI, it is not this perfect "because you use x, y, and z, you must be using AI to write for you," because AI learns off of actual authors and pulls from published pieces.

the way that i write is the way i was taught & feel most comfortable with. yes, i do use lists. it's one of my favorite things to do, along with the em dash (which i recently learnt how to actually do, it's option, shift, - !!)

i do all my writing on my notes app, so that i can access it across multiple devices & easily catalogue exactly what i'm writing (i find the 'folders'/'tabs' on google docs to be confusing), and due to that i can't offer any sort of actual proof because notes (to my knowledge) doesn't have the option to look at version history.

however, i can promise that i do not use AI in any of my work, nor have i ever. all i can do is hope you have enough trust in me to believe that when i say it. i have been a writer since i was in fourth grade and writing short stories about chris evans singing bon jovis 'you give love a bad name' and fighting evil clowns, since fifth grade when i was writing riverdale fanfiction, all throughout middle school on wattpad, and even early high school writing criminal minds fanfiction on tumblr as well (the account is since deactivated, sorry!). my wattpad handle is nocturnlightz (teen wolf fanfiction), if you want to go investigate my works from 2020 as well. i have other old tumblrs dedicated to other fandoms i wrote in that id be happy to share with you as well!

on my other social media platforms, i am very anti-AI, and if you want to DM me i'd be happy to share them as proof! i do not feel like putting my tiktok and/or instagram out there to be attached to this account publicly however. i definitely could've been more anti-AI on here i realize, and have spoken out more, but i only ever logged on to post and barely scrolled through anything.

all of this is to say:

i do not use AI in anything i have ever written or published here or anywhere else. AI has no place in the arts or in our society as a whole, and it is killing our planet.

i do not condone the use of AI anywhere.

anything posted by me is written by me, and it is my own personal terribleness that is posted. no one elses.

once again, i'd be happy to speak more with you one-on-one about the matter to clarify anything else!

and also, a reminder to please stop accusing authors of using AI, seeing as most of us do not (i cannot speak for everyone though). being accused of using AI to write something that takes anywhere from hours to days to write is really disheartening, and causes a lot of authors to abandon writing all together! in this day and age, it is almost impossible to determine if someone is using AI because AI uses authors to learn, and it is getting smarter each day.