#literally just free ammo for the pro-AI assholes

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I am going to fucking explode

There’s so many valid complaints about AI art/writing/whatever else and yet people keep saying “it’s just copying and pasting things” which ISN’T FUCKING TRUE. IT’S NOT! STOP BEING WRONG I’M TIRED OF SHARING AN OPINION WITH MORONS WHO HOLD THAT OPINION FOR INVALID REASONS!

The short version of how an AI like ChatGPT works is: It’s trained by having it read through some words of a work and predict what the next word is going to be. If it’s correct, the parts of its “brain” (using the term loosely because I don’t want to get into the weeds of neural nets) that made it get it right get reinforced, and if it’s incorrect, the parts of its “brain” that made it get it wrong get weakened. Eventually, after enough iterations, they’ll start testing it on sentences that don’t have complete endings. The bot will add a word onto the end, and then the sentence with the new word will be fed back into it so it can add another word, until either it hits the limit of how many words it can add, or it decided “actually the sentence should end here.”

Basically, y’know those memes of like “type [first half of sentence] and let autocomplete predict your future!”? ChatGPT is basically that, except instead of generating results based on the writing of a specific user, it’s the average of all users everywhere in the world, and it takes all of the words up til then into account rather than just the previous one or two.

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.