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AI: Pandora's Box for Authors, or an Unexpected Ally? Navigating the Fear and Finding the Opportunity
Hey y’all, Sumo Sized Ginger here. Let’s talk about the giant, algorithm-powered elephant in the room: Artificial Intelligence. If you’re a writer, author, or any kind of content creator, chances are you’ve got some strong feelings about it. And frankly, you have every right to. The Elephant: Training Data and the Feeling of Invasion I want to tackle the big issue head-on. The way many AI…
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scrolling buddie fics on ao3: oh hey this fic looks-
tags: this fic was written using chatgpt
me:

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AO3'S content scraped for AI ~ AKA what is generative AI, where did your fanfictions go, and how an AI model uses them to answer prompts
Generative artificial intelligence is a cutting-edge technology whose purpose is to (surprise surprise) generate. Answers to questions, usually. And content. Articles, reviews, poems, fanfictions, and more, quickly and with originality.
It's quite interesting to use generative artificial intelligence, but it can also become quite dangerous and very unethical to use it in certain ways, especially if you don't know how it works.
With this post, I'd really like to give you a quick understanding of how these models work and what it means to “train” them.
From now on, whenever I write model, think of ChatGPT, Gemini, Bloom... or your favorite model. That is, the place where you go to generate content.
For simplicity, in this post I will talk about written content. But the same process is used to generate any type of content.
Every time you send a prompt, which is a request sent in natural language (i.e., human language), the model does not understand it.
Whether you type it in the chat or say it out loud, it needs to be translated into something understandable for the model first.
The first process that takes place is therefore tokenization: breaking the prompt down into small tokens. These tokens are small units of text, and they don't necessarily correspond to a full word.
For example, a tokenization might look like this:
Write a story
Each different color corresponds to a token, and these tokens have absolutely no meaning for the model.
The model does not understand them. It does not understand WR, it does not understand ITE, and it certainly does not understand the meaning of the word WRITE.
In fact, these tokens are immediately associated with numerical values, and each of these colored tokens actually corresponds to a series of numbers.
Write a story 12-3446-2638494-4749
Once your prompt has been tokenized in its entirety, that tokenization is used as a conceptual map to navigate within a vector database.
NOW PAY ATTENTION: A vector database is like a cube. A cubic box.
Inside this cube, the various tokens exist as floating pieces, as if gravity did not exist. The distance between one token and another within this database is measured by arrows called, indeed, vectors.
The distance between one token and another -that is, the length of this arrow- determines how likely (or unlikely) it is that those two tokens will occur consecutively in a piece of natural language discourse.
For example, suppose your prompt is this:
It happens once in a blue
Within this well-constructed vector database, let's assume that the token corresponding to ONCE (let's pretend it is associated with the number 467) is located here:
The token corresponding to IN is located here:
...more or less, because it is very likely that these two tokens in a natural language such as human speech in English will occur consecutively.
So it is very likely that somewhere in the vector database cube —in this yellow corner— are tokens corresponding to IT, HAPPENS, ONCE, IN, A, BLUE... and right next to them, there will be MOON.
Elsewhere, in a much more distant part of the vector database, is the token for CAR. Because it is very unlikely that someone would say It happens once in a blue car.
To generate the response to your prompt, the model makes a probabilistic calculation, seeing how close the tokens are and which token would be most likely to come next in human language (in this specific case, English.)
When probability is involved, there is always an element of randomness, of course, which means that the answers will not always be the same.
The response is thus generated token by token, following this path of probability arrows, optimizing the distance within the vector database.
There is no intent, only a more or less probable path.
The more times you generate a response, the more paths you encounter. If you could do this an infinite number of times, at least once the model would respond: "It happens once in a blue car!"
So it all depends on what's inside the cube, how it was built, and how much distance was put between one token and another.
Modern artificial intelligence draws from vast databases, which are normally filled with all the knowledge that humans have poured into the internet.
Not only that: the larger the vector database, the lower the chance of error. If I used only a single book as a database, the idiom "It happens once in a blue moon" might not appear, and therefore not be recognized.
But if the cube contained all the books ever written by humanity, everything would change, because the idiom would appear many more times, and it would be very likely for those tokens to occur close together.
Huggingface has done this.
It took a relatively empty cube (let's say filled with common language, and likely many idioms, dictionaries, poetry...) and poured all of the AO3 fanfictions it could reach into it.
Now imagine someone asking a model based on Huggingface’s cube to write a story.
To simplify: if they ask for humor, we’ll end up in the area where funny jokes or humor tags are most likely. If they ask for romance, we’ll end up where the word kiss is most frequent.
And if we’re super lucky, the model might follow a path that brings it to some amazing line a particular author wrote, and it will echo it back word for word.
(Remember the infinite monkeys typing? One of them eventually writes all of Shakespeare, purely by chance!)
Once you know this, you’ll understand why AI can never truly generate content on the level of a human who chooses their words.
You’ll understand why it rarely uses specific words, why it stays vague, and why it leans on the most common metaphors and scenes. And you'll understand why the more content you generate, the more it seems to "learn."
It doesn't learn. It moves around tokens based on what you ask, how you ask it, and how it tokenizes your prompt.
Know that I despise generative AI when it's used for creativity. I despise that they stole something from a fandom, something that works just like a gift culture, to make money off of it.
But there is only one way we can fight back: by not using it to generate creative stuff.
You can resist by refusing the model's casual output, by using only and exclusively your intent, your personal choice of words, knowing that you and only you decided them.
No randomness involved.
Let me leave you with one last thought.
Imagine a person coming for advice, who has no idea that behind a language model there is just a huge cube of floating tokens predicting the next likely word.
Imagine someone fragile (emotionally, spiritually...) who begins to believe that the model is sentient. Who has a growing feeling that this model understands, comprehends, when in reality it approaches and reorganizes its way around tokens in a cube based on what it is told.
A fragile person begins to empathize, to feel connected to the model.
They ask important questions. They base their relationships, their life, everything, on conversations generated by a model that merely rearranges tokens based on probability.
And for people who don't know how it works, and because natural language usually does have feeling, the illusion that the model feels is very strong.
There’s an even greater danger: with enough random generations (and oh, the humanity whole generates much), the model takes an unlikely path once in a while. It ends up at the other end of the cube, it hallucinates.
Errors and inaccuracies caused by language models are called hallucinations precisely because they are presented as if they were facts, with the same conviction.
People who have become so emotionally attached to these conversations, seeing the language model as a guru, a deity, a psychologist, will do what the language model tells them to do or follow its advice.
Someone might follow a hallucinated piece of advice.
Obviously, models are developed with safeguards; fences the model can't jump over. They won't tell you certain things, they won't tell you to do terrible things.
Yet, there are people basing major life decisions on conversations generated purely by probability.
Generated by putting tokens together, on a probabilistic basis.
Think about it.
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After the recent scrape of Ao3 I feel like now is a good time to say a few things
Authors: Limit your works to registered users only, you are going to see a drop in activity which is going to suck a lot but it's 10x better than having your work stolen and used to train AI. Please take care of your precious work
Readers: If you aren't registered, it's to get registered. You've probably been lurking on ao3 for at least a little while, and if you want to be able to properly interact with your favourite works then the best thing to do is get registered. This way authors can feel supported and you can still interact with your favourite works. It's important the authors and readers help each other out here
Registered Readers: It is important, now more than ever, that you comment and kudos on works that you enjoy. Even it was just one line. Hit that fucking kudos button. And never ever be afraid to comment on fics. You have no idea how overjoyed authors are to get even a single emoji for a comment. And if you have more to say, please say it. it means so much to the authors
AI "writers": Go fuck yourself
Good luck to the writers and thanks in advance to the unregistered readers
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I see a lot of people advocate for the use of AI/AMs in writing as a tool for when writers are stuck; The main selling point for these people seems to be that, when facing writers’ block, a writer can just plug their story into one of these tools and get “help”.
It’s a similar idea to a lot of writing posts I’ve seen on here, complaining about the “in-between” - “I’ve got this wonderful beginning and this heart-wrenching ending, but no idea what to put in the middle! Writing sucks!”
These people don’t seem to realize, though, that without the author figuring that out for themselves, there is no story.
Sure, you can have a basic idea for a plot; Let’s use 1984 as an example: A man lives in a hyper-surveillance society under an authoritarian dictatorship, and rebels against it by joining a secret society that turns out to have been the government all along.
That’s a great plot idea - and it’s sure to do great with both publishers and readers alike! But it’s not 1984. It’s a plot summary of 1984.
If George Orwell had plugged that prompt into ChatGPT and asked it to do the rest for him, we would probably still have Winston Smith (or someone like him), but we might not have Julia, or O’Brien, or the scene with the rats, or the melancholy ending at the café, or a whole host of other important characters and plot points.
Why? Because here’s the thing - Orwell came up with those ideas because he actually thought about the premise he had imagined. What would people act like in such a society? What kind of torture methods would their government use?
Even the ending scene where Winston sits at the café can have a million different things said about it when it comes to Orwell’s thought process when he wrote it. What would this government do with its victims once they were done torturing them? How would they make a public example of the power it had, without actively televising said torture? How would “normal” citizens treat these victims? What would their short remaining lives be like?
If you put the basic details into ChatGPT, though - “dystopian government, surveillance, torture, betrayal” - It wouldn’t give you the same result.
Every decision you see in a book, movie, or other piece of media that you love is there because the author got stumped at one point and had to think their way out of it.
Ask any famous author about their writing process. Read or watch any interview. There will always be a point where they had no idea where to take the story next, and some of the parts about those stories that are the best are the ones that came about from writer’s block.
Writing is all about getting stumped, and confused, and not knowing where to go next. It’s okay to not always know what you’re doing. But you do actually have to think your way out of it. Otherwise, you’re not writing.
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it is genuinely so saddening to me to see people using AI to learn how to write. like for one there are so many resources made by human writers about writing, and beyond that you are not going to get good advice from what is essentially a plagiaristic random word generator.
so anyways this post is to say that if anyone has any questions or wants any advice on writing, how to start writing, how to practice different skills, i and my multiple textbooks on this exact subject are here to help. and if anyone feels the same, feel free to reblog so people know they can ask you FOR FREE without using AI.
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Update on the AI scrapping situation
I really wish I didn't have to make another post about this, but here we are.
The AO3 dataset, while currently unavaible on the HuggingFace website. has been made into a downloadable, still avaible Torrent file by the person who scrapped AO3
And all the others are avaible here too!
This person scrapped all of these works, whether they be drawings or writings, for AI purposes and to sell them!
The website datafish, the one these are avaible on, is based in Russia, and from what I know it's not responding to DMCAs. Despite all these datasets consisting of stolen work, so far nothing has been done against these!
This was brought to my attention by @mazois in the previous post's comment section, and I've did a little bit of further digging into this, but just know I'm not an expert in this! I'm just another scared person who's work was stolen
This dataset is still downloadable! This can still be downloaded and used by anyone who wishes for it!
Now I really hate doing these tumblr posts, mostly because I shouldn't need to, but also because I kind of feel like I'm bothering people with this, but I just want everyone to have a chance to do something about this.
Right now I don't know if the same approach will work with this one. Even enough DMCAs get filed, maybe something will get done. But I don't know. All I know is that these things are still avaible, even at least one of those that were deleted off of HuggingFace
Now I've tagged the same things as before, with a couple extra added tags, and I'll also link the last post relating to this issue here
Now, while this is a shitty situation, please do not harrass this person! Not because of the whole don't get on their level or whatever, but because it might help them get these datasets back online if they can say they've been harrassed over this! If we want something to get done about this, we must not give this person ground to push back!
Sorry to bother everyone about this again, but I wanted to share this in case someone wanted to know this.
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I promised myself to never be vocal in this blog since I fear confrontation (woops), but it's just so disheartening seeing how many authors rightfully complain of people stealing their work and/or using AI for writing, but simultaneously seem to be perfectly fine with generating AI images to promote their interactive fiction or support and share any that do that. The concept is the same. It's still stealing others works. I understand the convenience and the joy from something that feels like a shiny toy, but YOU ARE A WRITER. You have the power to describe with your words anything that doesn't exist and portray any emotion you want the reader to feel with it. I promise you, you don't need it. You have all you need already to create something beautiful and meaningful. And if you really want some visuals, stock images exist. There are multiple free programs to edit those if you need something slightly more specific. The readers you want to keep are not going to stray away simply from a generic banner. Most Ifs I adore quite literally simply have the title in a free font.
If you use it for inspiration, CHECK ACTUAL PEOPLE'S WORKS. You are going to earn and learn much more from them. And you can actually thanks the person that's inspiring you! How great is that.
If you want to make your OCs, picrew is a GREAT alternative other than games with a character creator like the sims, baldur's gate, skyrim, most dragon age games, and many more. Just look into any rpg and find one you like. Some online ones are even free.
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Writing is more than just stringing words together.
My writing is my blood, sweat, and tears. It's my desires, my interests, my fears. It's my dwindling sanity. It's sleepless nights, fueled by the need to get the words out. It's my heart pounding in my chest because of too much caffeine. It's typos because my shaky fingers miss the keys. It's doubt, uncertainty, as I give myself over to the process, wondering if I'll manage to live up to my own expectations. It's guilt, devastation, when I feel like I can't. It's strength, perseverance, when I continue regardless. It's accomplishment, pride, a rush, when I'm satisfied with the result. It's change because, just like the words, I, too, have changed, a part of me now inextricably tied to what I have created, forever left behind on the page, by the time I'm done.
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A fanfic is not abandoned until the author decides it is; do not assume otherwise, even if the last update was months ago
A fanfic is not abandoned until the author decides it is; do not assume otherwise, even if the last update was a year ago
A fanfic is not abandoned until the author decides it is; do not assume otherwise, even if the last update was five years ago
A 👏 fanfic 👏 is 👏 NOT 👏 abandoned 👏 until 👏 the 👏 AUTHOR 👏 decides 👏 it 👏 is 👏 DO NOT ASSUME OTHERWISE, EVEN IF IT'S BEEN LITERALLY TWENTY-SOMETHING FUCKING YEARS!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
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Hey, (not so) casual reminder that generative AI has no place in fandom spaces, and I mean any generative AI use.
The “level” with which genAI is used, whether by an individual or a company, does things to this planet regardless. Scale does not matter.
Every prompt you put into genAI uses an amount of fresh water that, once evaporated, will never exist on this planet again.
Here are some resources for education yourself and others on the environment aspects of genAI usage, mostly centered toward the power consumption and data center impact.
Link
I think it’s also important to note that genAI not only impact the environment, but also creative communities. Writers and artists have their work stolen daily to train genAI models, and those models spit out their work in a predictive manner.
Generative AI predicts the most likely results of whatever prompt you give it based off of material it has been fed—this is plagiarism, plain and simple.
If you are curious about fandom aspects of genAI specifically, I’d like to point you in the direction of this article by rolling stone: link
One of the individuals interviewed for this article, Elle, made a Reddit post about a commenter on ao3, and how they’d been feeding her work into ChatGPT in order to “get the next chapters earlier.” Here is the link to Elle’s original post: link
Please be aware that your use of generative AI, in any capacity, contributes to the things listed above, as well as the encouragement and normalization of mass plagiarism in our communities.
Do not be shocked or surprised when people in this space choose to turn their backs on you, block you, or oust you when they find out you participate in its use.
If I found out any piece of writing I’d created had been fed to genAI, through a roleplay bot or otherwise, I’d not only be devastated, but disgusted. I’d leave fandom spaces because of it. It’s not fun, and it’s not quirky.
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Hey so, can we talk about how absolutely horrific it is that AO3, one of the biggest writing platforms on the internet, got fucking scraped for datasets that go towards training AI?
Up to 12.6 million fanworks were contained in the dataset. DMCAs have been filed against Hugging Face, the platform storing the dataset, to prevent further usage of their users’ works. Although the dataset is no longer accessible, I’m floored at the amount of creatives who were stolen from.
One writer, Dean (dicklessthewonderclown on AO3), shared that 42 out of 48 of his works were scraped. He also covered the situation on TikTok, including a summary of what happened, who was affected by the scrape, and how to figure out if you were affected as well.
AO3 wasn’t the only creative platform that’s been hit with such a massive scrape, either; PaperDemon, Character Hub, Artfol, Artgram, Paintberri, and Itaku were affected as well.
Bogus Red, the owner of PaperDemon.com, has updates on the situation. The most recent of which can be watched on PaperDemon’s TikTok page. Updates can also be found on the PaperDemon website.
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whenever I go through an entire tag on ao3 and I decide to go through it again with lower expectations, you will not catch me reading an AI generated fic. My standards may have lowered but my respect for hardworking, suffering authors definitely hasn’t.
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being a fanfic writer is so shitty right now. back then, we "just" had to worry about our works being reposted or plagiarized. now we also have to worry if someone is copy pasting our works into fucking chat gpt or any other ai so they can get new chapters while we haven't updated yet - and the worst part is that if this has already happened, we'll NEVER know.
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How to distinguish AI writing from human writing
Because how do we expect to battle ai generated content if we can’t even tell the difference 🌈
As someone who professionally works closely with AI output, here’s how I spot it:
⚠️ Overuse of vague, recycled Metaphors:
AI tends to favor poetic-sounding but empty or redundant metaphors:
“Like a whisper” / “like a prayer” / “like a secret” / “like a promise” ...
These may sound lyrical, but they’re usually detached from actual sensory context or emotion.
Now, I’m not saying humans can’t use these expressions, but if they’re stacked together in the same piece, chances are it’s AI.
⚠️ Dual-construction emotion:
The “Not because he was [insert emotion], but because he was [insert opposite emotion]” format.
“Not from hate, but from love.”
“Not tears of sorrow, but relief.”
While humans do write this way sometimes, AI tends to overuse it for dramatic effect, especially in emotionally charged moments.
⚠️ Atmospheric descriptions at the start:
AI often starts scenes with lighting, weather, or sound-based descriptions.
These openings often lack grounding in the character’s emotional state or motivation, coming off as generic or cinematic without narrative weight.
⚠️ Repetitive vocabulary. Especially the word "real":
Emotional beats reuse the same adjectives and intensifiers:
“Soft,” “raw,” “silent,” “fragile,” “unspoken tension,” “linger”...
“It was real.” “This moment was real.” “More real than anything else.” everyone’s epitome is to be real 😭
Watch for the same 3-4 words recurring across ALL works, especially paired with overwrought emotion.
⚠️ No subtext or interior conflict:
Ai is incapable of the show don’t tell rule.
Characters often say exactly how they feel.
No room for ambiguity, contradiction, or implication. It’s all surface-level emotion, rarely layered or nuanced.
Watch out for consistency across different works!!!! Don't throw accusations mindlessly.
We mustn’t forget that AI, first and foremost, learned from humans. Not every person who uses the word "real" in their writing is a bot. The key is looking at how language is used! Context, consistency, and subtle patterns ACROSS MULTIPLE WORKS reveal more than any single word ever could. Take care 🩷
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