#Every time people treat AI in fandom as a new/recent thing I want to smack them with my cringy anime rp cleverbot fic from 2014

[tired-shadow-creature]

AI has literally been part of fandom for longer than some of the people currently whining about it.

Like, I wrote an AI assisted fanfic using Cleverbot all the way back in 2014. That's almost a decade ago.

I remember Botnik releasing its mainly AI written fanfic back in 2018 to generally very positive reviews.

AI dungeon has been around and on Ao3 since 2019.

Like, AI assisted or generated fanfics have been around for a while now. So can everyone please stop acting like they're this new and threatening thing? Like, they're really not.

Now that chatbots and the likes can form coherent paragraphs somewhat consistently there's bound to be more fics using them, which might be a bit annoying with regards to spam, but that's about as bad as it gets. And fandom has been growing and getting more, like, mainstream I guess, in general recently, so it's not like AI is the only thing to worry about there. Humans posting their own spam or non-fics seems to have gotten more common too. That's just the price of growth I guess, but it's not like that's an issue unique to AI stuff.

So can we all please freaking chill about AI fics already?