Fandom Problem #15,986:
I feel like people are purposely writing poorly (in the technical sense; lacking proper capitalization and punctuation like they’re Cormac McCarthy (haven’t read his books, he might utilize capitalization, but I know that he doesn’t utilize punctuation aside from maybe contractions, but some of what makes me think it’s signaling is that some of them also do that, which seems unusual for this?) and sometimes outright defying grammatical rules that are applied in the normal course of speech) as some kind of bizarre way of signaling that they’re not using AI, or something?
One would hope that people would just be able to trust that AI wasn’t used (beyond basic spellcheck functions, which is actually plausibly why things are like this? No spellcheck usage because that’s AI, I guess, which makes some sense maybe given that people oppose the usage of basic accessibility tools such as TTS, which doesn’t even utilize AI in any sense) on the grounds of the characters being in-character, and any divergences in that making sense for their character based off of features of any AU that’s been applied, but instead people choose to write bad?
I say this because, like, it’s common to see this kind of shitty grammar in people just starting out, but that’s generally accompanied by character acting OOC and the presence of self-inserts and OCs and stuff, but a lot of this new stuff is well-written from a character and plot standpoint, it’s just a mess from a technical standpoint? Which of course leads to the assumption that it’s as a way of showing that it’s the work of man, because that’s the inverse of how AI do things?
