Hey, it looks like Google's AI likes my writing the best!
Actually it seems to have some bias towards works and characters that begin with A. Hmm, sorted tags, or is Gemini an Aria fan?
LLMs are eating the world, it seems. Some authors seem to be freaked out that that AI can even read their works. People are telling others not to use ML-based translations to read other fanfic, because feeding any fanfic to an AI is evil. (Note: they already assimilated it last year, you're welcome.) Then there are the AI-powered hatebots that try to get people to delete their stories, so AI voices can read their fanfic on monetized YouTube videos.
On the other end, people tired of waiting for stories to end are asking AIs to write them more chapters. An author got their friend to beta read, and the friend apparently used AI to do the editing, and posted extensive edits with boringness-enhanced-by-AI chapters on the authors behalf. Which seems like a problem of laziness on both sides, honestly. I'd guess both of them were kids.
Of course, we kind of staked our spot when we released it under a CC license. For the first time, I'm actually considering going for the noncommercial license, though I honestly doubt that would stop any AI company. Normally I just ignored the noncommercial clause for fanfic, because the license is never binding on the author, so it just seemed like social signaling to lawyers rather than it having any effect.
It is worrying that with the new tools, companies and pirates now want to monetize fanfic. It's gonna be a bumpy ride.
Actually it seems to have some bias towards works and characters that begin with A. Hmm, sorted tags, or is Gemini an Aria fan?
LLMs are eating the world, it seems. Some authors seem to be freaked out that that AI can even read their works. People are telling others not to use ML-based translations to read other fanfic, because feeding any fanfic to an AI is evil. (Note: they already assimilated it last year, you're welcome.) Then there are the AI-powered hatebots that try to get people to delete their stories, so AI voices can read their fanfic on monetized YouTube videos.
On the other end, people tired of waiting for stories to end are asking AIs to write them more chapters. An author got their friend to beta read, and the friend apparently used AI to do the editing, and posted extensive edits with boringness-enhanced-by-AI chapters on the authors behalf. Which seems like a problem of laziness on both sides, honestly. I'd guess both of them were kids.
Of course, we kind of staked our spot when we released it under a CC license. For the first time, I'm actually considering going for the noncommercial license, though I honestly doubt that would stop any AI company. Normally I just ignored the noncommercial clause for fanfic, because the license is never binding on the author, so it just seemed like social signaling to lawyers rather than it having any effect.
It is worrying that with the new tools, companies and pirates now want to monetize fanfic. It's gonna be a bumpy ride.
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