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when I comment on a fellow writer's fic and they, in turn, comment on one of mine

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Funny thing I decided to make

my rules for the Bechdel test:

1.) Must have two named female characters

2.) Two+ female characters must interact (WITHOUT THE PRESENCE OF MEN)

3.) Their conversation MUST NOT be about a male character.

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Anyone using c.ai, chai, or other ai messaging apps. Trust me. You will be feel so much better if you turn to writing. You can feel proud of something you've created, you can craft it how you see fit, and you're not having any negative impact on the environment. I know it's a hard addiction to break, but try it. Set it aside for a day. Try thinking up a story and just writing it. You've got this

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ditch character ai. write fanfic. read fanfic. make a rp blog. send asks to a rp blog. you're too embarrassed? go anon. tell nobody its you. people aren't interacting? send yourself asks, send other people asks, reblog, share, get INVOLVED!! the community and humanity of it all is part of the buzz

if all that fails, stare at the ceiling and imagine it like your anatomy intended. u don't need that brainless algorithm; use your head !! it comes free !! included with your life !!

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women were not banging out spirk fanfiction in the 60s for you to be AI generating your fic

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Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.

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kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

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Not my screenshot, but I saw this on Reddit today and apparently it's what happens when you try to delete your c.ai account;

And like. Wow.

Not only is this creepy and scummy, it's borderline predatory considering how much of their userbase is vulnerable teenagers. Like this is fucking disgusting to me, they know EXACTLY what they're doing here. You cannot tell me this error message was written by innocent ignorance, I cannot see this as anything other than malicious intention to keep their userbase addicted to the app.

Encouraging this parasocial relationship they have, USING WE???

I'm sorry but this is so fucking awful, like I'm genuinely going to be sick right now I don't think I can ever touch that app again because of how disgusted I am

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how c.ai works and why it's unethical

Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.

The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)

I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.

How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].

I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.

"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."

Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.

(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)

Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:

It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.

C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.

Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.

DON'T USE C.AI, OR AT THE VERY BARE MINIMUM DO NOT DO THE AI'S WORK FOR IT BY STEALING OTHER PEOPLES' WORK TO PUT INTO IT. Writing fanfiction is a communal labor of love. We share it with each other for free for the love of the original work and ideas we share. Not only can AI not replicate this, but it shouldn't.

(also, this goes without saying, but this entire post also applies to ai art)

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doing @justleaveacommentfest and @nomorezerocomments is healing my writers block <3

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Its nice to come home and say hello to bull after a long day at the hospital and running around town

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dni

terf

zionist

lolicon/shotacon/map ((Proship okay - See read more))

white supremacists

anti lgbtq+

maga/alt-right

ablelist

vocal zuk/aang(zuk/aang/burak/hovsky dislikers dni also but, I feel weird putting those in the bullet list as it's not that deep.

i also particularly don't like zuk/ka shippers (unless you're multiship, or okay with people not also liking zuk/ka lol)

In the context of a dark story, I believe proshipping is okay so long as the shipper/writer is fully aware of the DIFFERENCE between fiction and reality, and is disgusted by the idea of it irl ofc.

And then I draw the line at (typically cishet) dudes who are into loli/shota, because normally it DOES extend to reality for them and they want to act on it, but don't for legal reasons. And even if it doesn't, I still don't wanna see that shit.

also i think oz/ai is a rapist so if that bothers you, also avoid me.

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spoiler for oversharing bulletpoints

I didn't have livejorunal or ff.net. i'm too much of a zoomie.

i kind of hated every wattpad fic even when i was 15 but i did post my eticalb smut there and im 95% sure it's still up lmao

yea it's here

i always be writing smut.

i roleplayed taakitz + burakhovsky. i also made the terrible mistake of using cai to rp and destroyed my writing skills. i genuinely hate that website.

okay kinda i read snippets for the patho girl i had a crush on and hear a lot of ideas for zuko fics that are kept in the mind vault.

they're all almost unbeta'd

i have written the most god awful things seen to humankind (im sure if i posted them they'd be liked but im shy). although the taako/sazed shit i was writing genuinely concerned my friends for my mental health LOL

im type smashing rn. tbh i feel like my comments lately have been reaction-youtuber core, but im trying my best.

i accidently leave and undo (??? does that happen) kudos. every single time.

i love any short fluff/angst/freaky fics. I have no attention span

i have written for m/m mostly (sorry) most of my original characters are lesbians though so i hope that makes up for it. I'm not sure if eticalb was f/m or ???/m, since it was before vgperson retconned eti being nonbinary

i researched a lot of Japanese culture for my oiran!zuko fic.

most of my long fic projects/games die in development hell with multiple on multiple planning files. rip!

semi-anxiously. usually the first hour I'm looking but then I forget until i start getting emails.

no commissions/fanart. unless you count my own art. i hope someday it will happen!

I have like 72 unpublished/unfinished stories. i kind of hate posting my fics though because i can't read them afterwards. i get to embarrassed and self-critical!

i like editing/formatting. the best part for me is editing because i turn my shitty draft into something good, and formatting makes me coder brain happy.

i be getting ideas in my sleep

i'm not 100% sure. i got drunk a lot in 2024 (and made a lot of bad choices!) so im sure it happened once.

i like having soda with me at all times, but i don't need it.

this one is funny because unless i get like 10k+ kudos and hundreds of comments (never happened), it will never be enough for tbh me im a bit crazy

i've sorta wanted to be a screenwriter for shows, but i want to run a fashion brand, be a etsy artist, a software engineer, and ofc be a indie gamedev.

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best friends

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if they matched on Grindr

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well why not