#my own ai archive

[wilmontstudioarchive]

Ravensden, Bedfordshire, England

Mid 2010s

[elf-trash]

reposting this bc the OP blocked me (and is blocking anyone else who disagrees which means blocked people can't reblog) and i want to say this loud and with my whole chest!!!!!

another Dragon Age fic was recently outed as being AI, and this is what the writer had to say for themselves about it:

so actually, Grammarly uses generative AI and is just as bad as ChatGPT. it also objectively makes your writing worse, it sucks the voice out of your prose and turns it into corporate sounding homogenized paste. it's also unethical for all the same reasons any generative AI is unethical. get a writing group and have a real human beta read for you if you don't trust yourself to check your own grammar etc. but honestly something unpolished and written entirely by your human brain and human imagination will ALWAYS be better than AI slop.

also, the part about published authors doing this is patently untrue. i know this is a huge problem in the self-publishing space, but most publishers now are including clauses in their contracts that expressly forbid the use of AI in ANY part of the creative process. this includes using ChatGPT to generate or clean up outlines or Grammarly to spellcheck and revise. so if you're trying to publish, don't fucking do this or you could literally be asked to return an advance if you get caught.

i've posted about this in the past, but AI detectors are actually shocking accurate these days. i've tested them extensively recently and they can consistently and correctly flag individual sentences written by ChatGPT in an otherwise original passage. and they almost never flag false positives. so the argument that AI detectors can't be trusted is just flat out wrong. are they correct 100% of the time? no. but can they indicate with a high degree of accuracy if AI was used in some capacity? absolutely, especially if there is additional evidence.

and for all the people hand wringing about AI detectors flagging false positives, let me just say this: if something is not AI written it is very easy to prove. you can't write anything of any considerable length without leaving a massive paper trail of notes and drafts. almost all writing software tracks changes and makes it very easy to prove you wrote something yourself. being falsely being accused of AI isn't actually a real problem and is only being made to seem as such by people who are trying to get away with and justify using AI or who are worried about getting caught.

i think a lot of people are just lured by a seemingly easy shortcut, and to their untrained eye, what the AI is spitting out feels "better" to them than their own writing. but i promise you it's not. trust your own brain and put in the work to improve at your craft rather than outsourcing the gift of your imagination to a robot that steals from other people's work.

i will continue to die on this hill!!!!!

[tenpintsof-sundrop]

-> people stealing, binding and selling fics on Etsy, risking everything that AO3 has built since the Anne Rice lawsuits

-> AI scraping being everywhere and Gen Z seeing nothing wrong with using AI to "help" fanfiction or outright "write it" for them, while older fanfic authors have struggled for years to perfect the style you love

-> comments being down across the board and consumption culture being at an all time high. a fic gets 800 notes practically overnight and doesn't get a single comment (and sometimes I literally have to beg for comments/feedback on my fics when I know that hundreds of people are reading them)

-> me, grinding my teeth while pouring my heart and soul into a 40k fic that I know will be forgotten by fandom in a month or could possibly be stolen to be sold as a "novel": I do this because I love this. I do this because I love this. I do this because it's my passion. I don't want to quit doing something that I love so much.

[blackkatdraws2]

They are my lifeline

[individual drawings below]

[wickjump]

im gonna start posting fanfic recs btw whenever i find good ones. both here and my (awfully barren) 18+ account. because there are so many good fics out there with so few hits and fewer kudos and sometimes no comments period and it SUCKS because i REALLY LIKE THEM A LOT.. and i hope that by linking them here and yelling at everyone to COMMENT DAMMIT they might actually do it

seriously though any comment means a lot. most people who read a fic don’t even give a kudos. even if the fic wasn’t top tier, if you didn’t dislike it, hand over some kudos!! and if you liked it, comment!!!! even if the comment is one singular heart emoji it will be appreciated. if the comment just says “great fic!” the author will be happy. your comment doesn’t have to be this long winded gushing or analysis.

so many authors quit writing or lose motivation because the comments are few and far in between or just sometimes nonexistent. trust me when i say authors don’t care about how long or cool or smart sounding your comment is i promise!!!

i hope that mmmaybe recommending fics and telling people to comment might help fics i really like get more support maybe. and i, points at you reading this, hope that you will listen!!!at least a little….at least sum kudos….

[killrisma]

Babe wake up! Supernatural fanfics corrupted the datasets for AI writing companies!!!

[ao3-shenanigans]

This is as good a time as ever to say:

Y’all, send me your favorite (non-explicit) fic recs and I’ll check them out!

If there not for a fandom I’m in (which is a lot of fandoms actually) I’ll guess what parts are cannon vs fannon and we can make a game of it or something- keep life interesting lol

If it’s for a fandom I know a lot about, I’ll share my favorite parts and we can go feral together :D

Edit/additional note:

general tag: #ao3 shenanigans

fic recs: #ao3 shenanigans’ recommend

Fanfic game: #ao3 shenanigans fanfic game

My doodles: #ao3 shenanigans doodle

Ai stuff: #my vendetta against ai ✌🏻

[fifiistar]

Drarry becoming Professors at Hogwarts Post-war >>

[kitaurita]

Shoutout to AO3 for being one of the few platforms to explicitly forbid any of the site’s contents for being used to train commercial AI.

It’s not really surprising given that AO3 is not for profit and the CEOs of most social media platforms would sell your soul to the devil for a single corn chip, but I still wanted to shoutout our beloved fanfiction site for putting its users first

[icantthink-ofagoodname]

"Why can't I see your phone?"

Simple, it's because:

[bean-writes]

Okay... So I don't really do fanart, or at least I haven't until now. But I was in the mood to draw and I had an idea for a collection of sketches inspired by a fanfiction I read so... Here's my first attempt at Crow!Corvo/Daud fanart!

[wilmontstudioarchive]

Odell, Bedfordshire, England

Late 2000s

[casper-ry]

I am so fucking pissed right now.

I've been on AO3 for three years now, and in all those years, I've always kept my works publicly available, because for a long time, I had no account and I wanted people in similar situations to be able to read my stories.

Now, none of my stories are really big, in fact, my two most popular stories are around 2k hits and 200 kudos, so nothing amazing, really. Therefore, for the past year, even with all this generative AI nonsense popping up, I thought "Who'd want to bother stealing my stories" and kept my stories open.

And here we are, five days into 2025, and I had fifteen different people on my tumblr tl telling people to hide the stories from users without an account, bc AI is getting worse and worse.

Today was the worst though: So basically this happened, and while I was not personally affected (luckily), I got into an argument with my sister about generative AI, because she said "Well if you put something on the internet of course it's gonna get stolen", and so on.

So all my works are now hidden for unregistered users (sadly), and I feel like this meme a friend made since they're in the same mood as I am:

and while I could go on an angry rampage about how much of an asshole some people can be, that just for a few cents they completely abandon their morals and sense of intellectual property, and how this is all one huge capitalistic scam-

I won't.

Because today was the best day of this year so far, and I had an awesome day, and I won't let AI take my joy from me.

So enjoy this doodle I made of a snow angel I made since it was the first snow this winter and you're never too old for a snow angel

[doctahchang]

i am so sad at times because of the fact that almost everything i do, i do extremely slowly. one of the reasons why i couldn't keep up with an art school. and, like, i would finish the task and do it well, but i need so much time to get there. which seems like a horrible trait to have in the modern world

[thanakite]

I was just reading a fanfiction and the person ended up saying in their notes that English isn't their first language, but they're using an AI to translate the fic for reading, and just.... PLEASE don't do this

For one it's not like the AI does an amazing job or anything (the person was even like the AI doesn't like to properly translate parts of the fic that are "spicier") and for another it's still supporting AI AND it's using up the large amounts of water AI uses

Google Translate is still VERY much a thing and maybe it has AI aspects getting plugged into it at this point, I don't know, but what I do know is that it has been around for a long time and that even when it isn't perfect it still gets the job done, AND it doesn't ignore things that it thinks are inappropriate or whatever

If you don't want to use Google Translate for whatever reason and don't want to deal with the struggle of translating every word with a dictionary set to your language, then it's fine to just write your fanfic in your native language you know?

I do get where people are coming from with this as I'm sure a decent number of fanfic readers read in English, but realistically that shouldn't be the concern, if someone wants to read your fic that you wrote in your primary language and they don't read that language themselves they can run it through Google Translate a lot of time (especially with how many languages are on there now)

But please, don't feed the AI machine

We don't need to encourage the use of these things and especially not in spaces like this, and really you are likely to lose readers over it, I know I decided not to continue with the story because of this, because it feels like I'm then supporting these AI that are stealing the works of others and sucking the soul out of the most basic of human crafts (art and writing)

And really if you are trying to get more readers by translating you can always have a version in your primary language and a version that was run through Google Translate no matter how good or bad that turns out as in time you can come to gain a "following" so to speak who will either help with your translations or will just be willing to figure out the translations for themselves just to read your work

And to be clear, myself and plenty of others are completely fine reading "shitty" fanfics as long as they pull you in, so thinking "oh I'll use an AI to get a better quality transition so more people read it" for one isn't accurate in the first place as I very much doubt that AI which has proven to be be extremely shitty in many ways is actually doing a better job than something like Google Translate and for another is flawed in the thinking that people only read fanfiction that is perfect

No fanfiction is perfectly written and really even published books often contain at least one or two minor mistakes, it's fine. And if someone stops reading your work because of minor mistakes, then the likelihood of them sticking around just because you used an AI instead isn't actually very high at all (even just this one that inspired this post had errors in it, but I, and I'm sure many others, would have and will keep reading it, but A LOT of people in the fanfiction community want nothing to do with AI so you are likely losing more than you are gaining with this)

[ao3-shenanigans]

hey hi hello!

not sure if this has been asked (of if this is the right place to ask this) so apologies if it has, but what are the advantages and disadvantages of locking a fic? are the bots really going to steal my work? i'm concerned about AI but I also don't want to prevent people who might like my work and friends without an AO3 account from reading it!

ty <3

Good question!

Locking a fic essentially means that only folks logged in with an Ao3 account can access the fic. Aside from the Ai concern, people have been using it as a way to discourage harassment from anonymous users or making their personal work inaccessible to their irls who aren’t in fandom.

As for your ai concerns, according to the OTW announcement May 15, 2023:

“We've put in place certain technical measures to hinder large-scale data scraping on AO3, such as rate limiting, and we're constantly monitoring our traffic for signs of abusive data collection. We do not make exceptions for researchers or those wishing to create databases. Putting systems in place that attempt to block all scraping would be difficult or impossible without also blocking legitimate uses of the site.

With that said, it is an unfortunate reality that anything that is publicly available online can be used for reasons other than its initial intended purposes. In many cases, AI data collection traffic relies on the same techniques as the legitimate use cases above.”

They then go on to say: “You may want to restrict your work to Archive users only. While this will not block every potential scraper, it should provide some protection against large-scale scraping.”

Ultimately it’s up to you and what you want to prioritize!

This is a good post that details the process for getting an account with Ao3