#basically visual art scrapers take your art and find new ways to mush it together or steal the style

[prairieprayer]

I’m not defending the use of AI in creative writing (it kinda sucks) but I will say this seems a bit like a misunderstanding of what a natural language model is and does. It’s not the same thing as a visual art creator that scraps art and just mushes it together in different ways. Where you can get AI art that looks just like a copy of an actual artists art, because it’s really just variations of art clipped together, natural language text generators do not work that way.

A natural language model does have to be fed large swaths of data, but a natural language model like chatGTP does not simply cut and paste things together. It is learning how to predict the most likely and most correct response to your input; so, if you put “Good morning” it knows the most likely to be correct reply is going to be something like “Good morning! How are you today? I am a natural language model and I am here to assist you. Let me know if you have any questions!”

If you ask it instead to generate a paragraph of text to what comes next in a story- it’ll do it, but you’re asking it to “be creative” and what it comes up with is not going to be other people’s fanfiction cut and pasted. It’s going to be what it thinks it’s most likely (most “natural”) to be the correct next turn of events- it is working out what the pattern is, what has been the most likely thing to happen in that scenario in the last. For example if you said “my friend opened a box and screamed when she saw what was in it! What comes next in this story?” It might say “She saw something that scared her inside of the box.”

… also never take what a natural language model says for full truth. They don’t know everything and will “deceive” you by filling in gaps- basically making shit up if they don’t know it, and being confident about it. Bing is hooking a modified chatGTP up to their search engine, so it’s accuracy will be improved, but it’s still just a more articulate Siri from your first IPhone. This is why it says text generated responses for homework are obvious :p the bot is a liar but doesn’t know it’s lying

That said.. even if it isn’t cut and pasted from stolen written work and is just a glorified text predictor, it’s lazy as shit and completely kills creativity to use text generation for fanfiction. The bot does not know the context of your story, it does not know the context of the IP it’s coming from, and it is going to be shit as spacial awareness and story consistency. By all means is it a great soundboard for bouncing ideas off of when you need ideas but no one is awake, but chatGTP is a dumb robot with severe creative restrains (content filters) who, half the time, sounds like a lobotomized 1990s PSA.

Unless you are using it as an accessibility tool for helping you be creative, don’t be lazy… natural language bots are useful tools, not end-all-be-all generators for making quick “give me likes!!” content that shits on your fellow creatives. Using chatGTP or any NLP bot like characterAI as stand ins for your own work is so passionless……

Tl;dr: you have nothing to fear from a natural language processing chatbot (can’t fully speak for NovelAI or TavernAI) when it comes to fanfic or literature theft, because even if they were scraping fanfiction, they are learning how to speak like/pretend to be a human, NOT copying your art and tweaking it slightly. They are a different AI than visual AIs, but both use a neural network.

kind of wanna reinforce this here. because i’ve seen ai writing become so popular on tik tok.

ai writing is not okay.

it’s literally theft. just like how ai art steals, ai writing steals. it’s using authors’ very real work to generate whatever you type in. and this also needs to be said as well.

writing is a form of art. fanfiction is a form of literature.

seeing this all over my fyp is REALLY discouraging. fanfic itself is already a labor of love and we love it when you interact. but please do not use ai writing for your fanfic needs when this writing literally steals from fanfic authors.

genuinely don’t know if this post will go around because my interactions outside of hcs are shit, but i hope it does.