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)
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…
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:
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.
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?
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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