There shouldn't be "plans" to ban AI-generated works, because this ban should have already happened. Accepting this garbage is morally wrong. Of course the stance isn't guaranteed to be enforceable, but neither are laws against armed robbery. It's against the law, but it still happens. Does this mean that all types of robbery and burglary should be legal, that we should just throw up our hands and say that we can't do anything about them? Does this mean that nobody should go to prison for murder, because murders are against the law but still happen? Should we just have no laws at all, because laws are broken all the time? Why do we even try to do the right thing, why not just repeat that "nothing can be done" and allow/ignore every type of crime? Right here and right now is the time for people to stand up and refuse to be brainwashed and manipulated into thinking that "nothing can be done." Will YOU choose to do the right thing instead of the easy and morally bankrupt thing?
A ban on posting LLM output to the Archive makes it harder to detect LLM output posted to the Archive, because people will stop self-reporting their use of LLMs in tags, summaries, and author's notes, leaving only user accusations and the occasional bungling idiot who leaves prompts and AI interaction puff in place.
Many of those user accusations will be false positives.
Some of the false positives will be accidental false positives from well-intentioned idiots.
Some of the false positives will be malicious false positives by bots, LLM stans, TERFs, racists, homophobes, misogynists, and common or garden trolls.
And unlike a false accusation of murder, there's no need for the malicious false accuser to set up an apparent murder scene. They can just point a finger and say "that fic is AI" and now a volunteer on the PAC team has to go look at the fic and make some kind of assessment.
Which may involve reading many thousands of words of the impugned work to pick out features that might be AI spoor... or might just be shitty, formulaic writing by an inexperienced or perpetually incompetent human author. And then get a second opinion from another PAC volunteer.
And a lot of the fics that get those malicious false reports will be things the volunteers would rather not read at all, but now have to read because someone has alleged that they're LLM output and thus forbidden.
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