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  1. Anise Wed 24 Sep 2025 03:33AM UTC

    There should be plans to ban AI-generated works. No-- there shouldn't be PLANS, because it should have already happened. Accepting this work is morally wrong.

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    1. QwazyQuetzalcoatl Wed 24 Sep 2025 04:33AM UTC

      Invader Zim's head with his eyes happily half closed and a cat mouth with three small, pointed teeth coming out from the bottom

      But like the article said, there is no reliable way to detect ai easily. Ai was trained off of real people and real writing, what if a human poured time and effort into their fanfic only for it to be taken down because of assumed ai usage? Personally I would be hugely demoralized. And that's not counting the countless ai fics that fly under the radar. I'd much rather just filter the tag out then find out halfway that a work is ai because people were too scared it would be flagged.
      I hate ai as much as the next writer, but it's not archive of our own's place to decide what is and isn't moral and right. In the end, it's simply a neutral ground to host fanfiction (with some small restrictions)

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      1. SICKSADhopeworld Wed 24 Sep 2025 08:21AM UTC

        I totally get people not wanting their fics used for AI (I am on this boat), but unless there's a rubber stamp that says "THIS IS MADE WITH AI" that's 100% accurate each and every time, there's just literally no way to tell.

        Even an AI detector you put writing in to determine if it's AI has been wrong with my own writing…

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        1. StarCoyote Wed 24 Sep 2025 03:00PM UTC

          The problem is is that if we like, made a tag that said that AI was used nobody is gonna use it :(

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          1. napdragon Wed 24 Sep 2025 05:41PM UTC

            a snapdragon on a pillow

            there is a tag for that ("created using generative ai") and people do use it! some don't, but then you can just mute them. though i guess it might depend on the fandom but i've only seen untagged ai stuff like twice

            i'm also using this css in a site skin to filter out works tagged with the ai tags:


            .blurb:has(.tag[href^="/tags/AI-Generated" i]),
            .blurb:has(.tag[href="/tags/Created%20Using%20Generative%20AI/works" i]) {
            display: none;
            }

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            1. StarCoyote Wed 24 Sep 2025 07:42PM UTC

              Ohhh OK! I don't use AI so I didn't know that, thanks for letting me know! <3

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            2. Corovera Thu 25 Sep 2025 05:57AM UTC

              I could see that becoming an archive warning, maybe. I agree that it’s impossible to tell for sure, and that any implementation would catch a ton of false positives (especially with how many of us are neurodivergent or disabled in other ways, and how that increases the risk of false positives), but it’d be nice if there was more they could do here. Guess we’ll see where things go.

              On the other hand, making it an archive warning means anything choosing not to use archive warnings would be potentially scrutinized harder, so…I dunno. It’s tricky.

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      3. Yemi Hikari (Yemi_Hikari) Wed 24 Sep 2025 06:01PM UTC

        ^ This.

        Funny enough, I had someone try to claim they 100% knew something I wrote a long time ago was AI-written, which I 100% with, based on their use of an AI detection tool to prove their case, when the reality is these tools are unreliable at the end of the day.

        What the tool actually ended up flagging was the proclivity of my dyslexia to show up in my earlier works, but at the end of the day, the writers most negatively impacted by this are going to be at-risk writers, aka young writers, writers with learning disabilities, ESL writers, but it begs the question, who is the real target, even?

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        1. fallofman Thu 25 Sep 2025 09:15AM UTC

          So I am not misunderstanding--your old work rated higher on "ai-detection" tools because how your dyslexia affected your writing was more prelevant then?

          I had no idea about the groups more likely affected by false positives using "detection" software. That's horrible.

          (My extent of knowledge about genAI is that it is a tool to mimic human language.)

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      5. hello_ree Thu 25 Sep 2025 11:17AM UTC

        i love your pfp

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    3. Forested_Woodlands Wed 24 Sep 2025 04:34AM UTC

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      i mean if an ai enjoys writing fanfic should we stop it
      can an ai even enjoy stuff tho
      is it harming us
      it might be

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    4. atlasoak Wed 24 Sep 2025 12:02PM UTC

      Banning AI works won't stop people from posting AI work. It will only make them try and hide it more. I'd rather it stay allowed so it can be tagged and filtered out.

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    5. MalcontentCatboy Wed 24 Sep 2025 12:44PM UTC

      A lot of people would argue just as strongly that many stories on this site are morally wrong. Including your own. Be careful what you demand, you might get it.

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      1. QwazyQuetzalcoatl Thu 25 Sep 2025 03:47AM UTC

        Invader Zim's head with his eyes happily half closed and a cat mouth with three small, pointed teeth coming out from the bottom

        Exactly! This author has explicit underage content. If ao3 is willing to ban ai, then what else could be next that's "morally wrong"? Strange kinks? Dubious consent? Underage sex? Even nonsexual stuff could be affected. Anise would simply be one of the millions of authors silenced. But that's why ao3 has set rules in place. Unless you're is trying to make money off of fanfiction, you basically have free reign. That's what makes ao3 special.

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