Togo's Writing Blog

What's your stance on AI? I beta for several fandoms, including TF, and one of my authors has asked me to beta something they wrote on GlimmerFic. I'm hesitant because it looks like it's AI based. I genuinely don't understand why any author would even want put their work in an AI.

I’m anti-AI period. I don’t like it. I get irrationally angry when the stupid assistant thing on google now tries to start up a conversation because I tried to look up something to verify my word usage and it thinks I want its opinion. I don’t. I never do.

I’ve never heard of that particular one, but I have heard all the excuses people come up with for using it and honestly, none of them are valid. Saying they’re bad writers or they have trouble expressing themself in words. Practice. It’s a craft and you have to learn it. No one writes something perfect and flawless every time and especially not first starting out. I’d rather read something real with heart and emotion and a bajillion typos than some formulaic slop made by AI. Look at my old stuff on FFN. It’s awful. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I was having fun, at least.

You’re allowed to write badly. You’re allowed to make typos, forget words and have to string together vague questions into a search engine because that word is right there and you have no idea what it is right this second, to write yourself into a corner because you have no clue where you’re going with a fic, but hey, you’re enjoying the trip and that’s why deus ex machina exists. At least the story is human. It makes you feel something. AI can only badly mimic what gets fed into it. It can create a hollow echo of the real thing that can’t evoke the same depth because AI can’t understand it.

I get a little salty about this and about how authors tend to get treated in general

in this era of constant performances and people being scared of being perceived as anything less than perfect for fear of ridicule or abandonment given how anything less than perceived “perfection” (particular on the internet, but also in society) yields that ridicule or abandonment. Let it be known that you can do things poorly and that doesn’t make you a lesser person.

An amateur is someone who does something because they love it.