Originally human-created fic please

[schneefink]

I've stumbled across "this fic was written by Chat GPT" on AO3 for the first time and I hate that this is apparently a thing now. I also found a post with replies on Tumblr that articulated some of the reasons for that. It feels a bit like, hm, regurgitated writing mush: no thought behind it, no ideas. I think Chat GPT could be useful as a tool for writing sometimes, for prompt generation or brainstorming or something like that, but I don't want to read stories written by an AI. I know that probably at some point soon an AI will be able to read a story that I can't say for sure is written by a real person or not but that's not the point. I want fandom and the fanworks in it to be in conversation with other fans, not translated through a machine copying from other writing.

I also think that out society is woefully underprepared for the current challenges posed by the use of AI but that's entire topics on top of that.

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[jadelennox]

The most undeservedly arrogant people have completely misunderstood what we wanted AI for. (Also fiction written by a predictive text algorithm is like accidental cereal packet poetry: amusing, but nothing more.

Science Fiction dystopian writers for the last 102 years: "And then we will invent robots and artifical intelligence and the robots will be so angry we make them do all the shitty work so we can live a life of creative luxury that they'll rise up and destroy humanity!"

Silicon Valley: "Ooh, let's invent algorithms to read the fiction. And write the fiction based on the fiction it read. And look at pictures. And then make new pictures. Somebody send the proles to the Uber-driver mines so we can spend more money on our galaxy brained vision."

[schneefink]

fiction written by a predictive text algorithm is like accidental cereal packet poetry: amusing, but nothing more.
Hah, yeah.

It keeps being frustrating what things that could make our lives so much easier are actually used for. (Though off the top of my head I struggle to think about what things I would prefer that AIs like ChatGPT or its image equivalent would be used for, but I'm sure there's something.)