vibing in the vast

I’ve rewatched Inuyasha more times than I can count but haven’t reread the manga in years.

I’ve rewatched Inuyasha more times than I can count but haven’t reread the manga in years.

A user in my little "Sesshōmaru/OC" corner of AO3 posted a 'work' very recently and proclaimed it was assisted by genAI.

FUCK 👏 OFF 👏 WITH 👏 THAT.

Besides the massive environmental harm genAI causes, it steals from the creatives who have poured time and patience into honing their craft and creating REAL art.

If you use genAI to write or draw, you are a thief. Plain and simple. And if you ignore my polite request to stop using AI and keep posting, I'm going to call you out.

So here's the story and here's the user. And here's my polite comment, just in case it gets deleted, I guess. Don't give this person a fucking second of your time. Kharizmah, shame on you.

Despite what I said to them, I will *probably* try to swallow down my anger and not continue to comment on their fic. AI writing is usually ignored by readers, so I'll keep it that way.

Wish AO3 had a 'Report AI Slop' option.

remember, guys: any creator who asks you to enact their agenda by harassing someone has made the jump from creative to cult of personality.

whether they become cassandra claire or james somerton is 100% about how much they are able to make people continue enacting their agenda after they are caught.

plagiarists don't stop stealing after they are caught, they just get better at hiding it. if they were willing to do the actual creative hard work they would've just done it in the first place. if they had intellectual honesty they would've admitted it at the first instead of doubling down.

not only was opalapparaition getting fandom attention, but they also got an agent and a manuscript deal on our fucking backs. because of our attention.

an apology is nice, admitting it is nice, but in the end it doesn't change anything for me.

she was willing to capitalize on fandom attention to achieve real-world benefits while also not sharing any of those benefits with friends close enough to beta her to-be published work for free. while also not even finishing the story for fans.

Evelyn: “We dig up dead people who often have monstrous curses placed on them!”

Rick: *grabs sword from equally ominous looking wall full of weapons one of which seems to be glowing* fantastic I was getting a bit rusty

Rick: Have I mentioned how wonderful my wife is yet, I really feel like I haven’t really expanded enough on how wonderful she is

Gomez: do go on, I would be delighted to hear about how wonderful your wife is, I strongly encourge all men to extoll the virtues of their wives with rapturous praise, however I should perhaps mention my wife is in fact better

#hello again martin and bosco!! sending you boys round for another go :)

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.