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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Aphis Wed 29 Jul 2026 02:09AM UTC
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