Comment on AO3 Celebrates 18 Million Fanworks

  1. A_Dark_Elderberry_Place Sun 26 Jul 2026 11:24AM UTC

    I can't believe how fast this has been moving, the 17 million milestone was just a few months ago!

    Keep writing, folks, we'll hit twenty by the end of the year.

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    1. kalthegriankin Sun 26 Jul 2026 11:49AM UTC

      YES THE HELL WE WILL *insert happy face here*

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    2. Aphis Sun 26 Jul 2026 01:21PM UTC

      honestly it feels like yesterday when we were celebrating 16 million it's great to see more contributions!

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      1. confusedmaira Wed 29 Jul 2026 12:11AM UTC

        yeah but i worry the reason we've reached 18 million so quickly is because of people posting ai-generated works. it's not the majority of new works but it's a noticeable number of them. idk for sure though

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        1. Aphis Wed 29 Jul 2026 02:09AM UTC

          As someone who writes fanfiction because I love writing, it just makes me sad, especially when people use ai and try to pass off that work as their own instead of tagging ai which I've seen before unfortunately, and it doesn't help either that ai writes like fanfiction sometimes because ao3 has been scraped multiple times to train these models.

          I do know there are still many people who write their own works and I'm glad for it (I guess I'm just lucky the fandom I'm in isn't too oversaturated yet), so I hope the people who do write can keep writing just for the sake and fun of it and readers can appreciate the hard work they put into writing when they could easily just ask ai to spit out some low quality stuff

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        2. funeralistaa Wed 29 Jul 2026 06:34PM UTC

          ikr, i keep seeing ads for people to AI generate their own work. like theres a whole app for it and its honestly disgusting since writing is literally art

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    4. FireFly1029 Mon 27 Jul 2026 04:00AM UTC

      I won’t be surprised if we will!

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    5. kanadefan_3 Tue 28 Jul 2026 04:59AM UTC

      ໒ ͚.ིྀ ݂ . ͚১֯݀    𓂂     ֹ    🐿️ « squirrelstar.

      we probably will!

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