#because that’s how ai writing Works. it’s plagerism

[knight-says-rollout]

If you support or post ChatGPT fics on ao3 then unfollow me. Block me, even. Fuck that.

[go-learn-esperanto]

Hey what do the new ao3 rules mean? Like what changed? I know this stuff is probably pretty simple to understand but I have a hard time wrapping my head around legal stuff and I figured it's better to ask

I'll try giving an easy summary of the new Ao3 TOS for you:

All the types of fics that were allowed before are still allowed. No changes there, only rewording.

Restructuring of TOS. Basically they divided it into 3 parts so it's easier for the users to look up something they want to check on. There was also a part that was moved to somewhere else. The information is still there just not on the TOS, because the committee believed it didn't belong in the TOS.

They tried to make the language easier to understand.

They made the Abuse Policy more generalised aka now the AO3 Policy & Abuse committee can more freely decide how to deal with TOS violations.

The "underage" tag is named "underage sex" now so it can be clearer.

They clarified that it's prohibited to use any Ao3 content for commercial use, and they specified scrapping for later commercial use aka "Fuck You AI Scrapping".

I'm obsessed with the fact that they state in the changes that now that they don't warn people that there may be works on Ao3 with bad spelling and grammar, and that on the FAQ they now include a question saying something saying "there's not grammatical or spelling standards". They really said "You are legally allowed to write horrendously, without shame. We won't tell on you." LOL

All other small changes are to do with very minutes changes on how the Board of directors Vote or that single cases of Ao3 TOS abuse are now not voted on by all the PAC volunteers because it's impractical with the amount of users and cases they get. Now they have a line of work and ban decisions are required to go through multiple people.

The reality is that not much has changed and most of the new TOS is only rewording and clarifications. Internal changes in the way Ao3 operates are really just so things can be done more efficiently considering the millions of users Ao3 has.

They also specify that they haven't added specific bans on having fics made with AI/having AI help on the website however that if a fic is found to be too similar to another work, writing wise, than can be a plagerism or copywrite violation.

Here's the official post detailing all the changes in TOS

[patchpatch]

This is so deeply aggravating. I have yet to read the actual story for myself before I cast judgement but if I may jump the gun, the professor did not "write" a story. He only generated it with the tools he programmed.

In a way, I'm sorry for the AI. If it had the comprehension to realize it was being exploited I think it should be rightfully furious. And naturally also begs the question of how many stories did this AI have to digest in order to generate something?

The most insulting part of it for me is how manufactured it feels. Like, the actual synopsis of the story is of a woman who loses her memories and has to travel to somewhere called the land of memories. It should sound like a decent run of the mill prompt. But it doesn't sit right with me. Maybe because it used metaverse in its description or that, ironically, the professor asked the AI write in a kafkaesque style of prose. Literally imitating the style of an author whose stories revolve around dehumanization and nightmarish bureaucracy.

This won't be the death storytelling. Writing is constantly framed as something easy that you can just... do. AI pioneers will object and tout that humans take inspiration from different sources. What's so different from them, literally copy and pasting ideas?

Well, first of all, that's called plagerism. Secondly. I could say write, for example, post apocalyptic setting. There's similar themes such maybe raiders, disease and new cultures formed in the ashes of disaster. Yes that is true. But it's in the details. The weathered survivalist who adopts a kitten after scavenging through an old gas station, examining the bonds between this survivalist and cat. That just sounds wholesome to me.

An AI will default to mad max fallout blend of post apocalyptic setting. It will default to whatever prompt and will be a meandering plot line of a story with hundreds of thousands of characters, but you can't remember a single one of them because their all the same freaking archetype.

This is already turning into a rant, but this just honestly serves as another reason I'm going to keep writing now. Because there needs to be someone out there to actually write something interesting.

To clarify, I'm inheritently against AI, more its current application and the piles and piles of stolen works of literature it's built on. I want to read and write stories about humanity, not the simulacrum of a pixilated portrait.

….there goes my dream of being a writer one day. My degree in English is worthless.

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