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.

Comments

[schneefink]

And what policy did they decide on?

I guess maybe if ChatGPT writes someone a story for a prompt that they really like and think other people might enjoy it too? Still doesn't feel like "fanfic" though. Some kind of imitation.

[michelel72]

It looks to me like "contribute some work of your own" and "label it". Post is here.