i've recently noticed a significant uptick in fics on ao3 tagged with 'not made with AI' or 'fuck AI' or similar and i gotta say it is giving me a sour taste in my mouth
like yes obviously fuck AI obviously do not profane the act of creation by asking a water guzzling hallucinatory robot trained on countless stolen artworks to do the thinking for you
but if we are tagging for 'not made with AI' then i very much worry that there is going to be a flip in perspective somewhere on the future that anything not tagged this way is made with AI... a sort of normalization of "well everyone uses it, unless you call out that you don't, we'll just assume that you did" and i gotta be real that is not a timeline i want any part of









