#I'm sick and tired of seeing AI garbage everywhere

[steviewashere]

Over the last two years, I have spent hours upon hours sitting at my computer and writing, expanding, and sharing my fanfic ideas. I sit with an idea, I love the idea, and then I write the idea. I structure it, I put my blood, sweat, and tears into it, and I then post it.

I don't do this hobby for anybody but myself. This is all self-indulgent, every last bit of it. I join challenges because I enjoy a writing challenge. I join holiday exchange things because I want to gift a person some art or writing about one of their favorite pairings or some of their favorite characters.

At no point have I used AI. I refuse to use generative AI for anything. I think it's cheap and shitty and pointless.

If you're using generative AI for fandom purposes, you're lame and a loser. You choose to love something made by humans—something that took hours upon hours, months, and years—and force it down an AI's gullet, watch it choke on words, and then mama bird regurgitate it into your fucking hands. And then what?

You post it? You post it with a generative AI tag? You post it with excitement? You share something that desecrates not only the source material you based it on, but the characters you apparently love?

Give me a fucking break.

If you love characters or a pairing, you create for them. You create an AU, you revive them, you make them hold each other, you spin them around in your head at all angles until you could describe them to a T. If you love a source material, you put your heart and soul to show how much you want to praise it, how much you want to love it, how much it means to you.

Generative AI has no place in fandom. Not at all.

Also, you can't make a statement in a fanfic about how you hate generative AI, how cheap and stupid it is, and then turn around to generate AI for a character's dialogue—even if they're a robot that speaks with generative AI. What you do instead is view what other people have posted about AI, you hobble together what could be shown off as something similar to how a generative AI program may speak, and you write the dialogue your-fucking-self.

Imagine picking up a hobby full of creativity and fun and going, "Wow, I really don't have the time for this," and instead of commissioning somebody or sending a fic idea to somebody, you turn around and shit on the hobby by generating it. Instead of loving your fandom friends, instead of loving the showrunners and the authors and the directors and the actors, you turn around and let man-made horrors amalgamate the semblance of love in the shape of smears and six-toed feet and stairs that wrap and curve and disappear into utter nonsense.

You're a fool and a phony and a complete fucking coward for not even trying to be creative on your own.

You do it bad. You do it pathetic. You do it shitty. And then you learn and you read and you get better.

It may have taken me two years to get to where I'm at, and I may have posted some terribly written bullshit, but at least I fucking did it. At least I took the first step towards being better, and that was trying. I tried and I'm better for it.

AI is horseshit and has no place here. Go fuck yourself.

[theambivalentagender]

I'm serious, I'm sick and tired from spending years in SEO and other "dry" writing related fields doing the work that actually makes a lot of these websites readable and getting jack shit for it. Same, if not more, for the creative side.

Clear and strong writing is a skill that not everyone has and that is highly, highly valuable. Companies are trying to use AI and other things to replace that and constantly getting egg on their face and still needing to hire people to fix their attempts at saving money.

I wish there could be a writer's strike everywhere, for every industry. You really think the work we do can be automated? Ok, try it out and see how that works for you. Oh wait you already are and already needing to find people to fix the plagiarized garbage spewed out by chatgpt. Now I want double for what you would have paid me to just write it in the first place.

Companies are trying to hire people to "fix" what chatgpt or whatever spits out and I want writers everywhere to start demanding $60/h for their work.