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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[marginaliana]

I hadn't heard of this happening until this post but now I'm so angry about it. What do people think they're going to get from doing this? What do they even want? This is not fandom.

[schneefink]

I'd heard about it on Tumblr but I'd hoped that it was a very niche case, it was an unpleasant surprise to find it myself. Maybe/hopefully I just got very unlucky and it is still very rare.
Trying to come up with a charitable interpretation, maybe they enjoyed the text the AI wrote and think others might enjoy it too, but yeah, that's not a fanwork for me.