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moonlightwritingf1 has publicly responded to our contact over the past month. You can seek out that statement on their blog. Our final response regarding this is below.

Firstly, we did not see their first post addressing this most likely because they deleted it before too many people could see it or because we are blocked. We also don’t look at other blogs every day because we do in fact have jobs. Would you accuse someone who spends time writing of not having a job?

We do respect their honesty but stand by the resources used to track their pattern of writing and believe that the reasons stated for their work flagging AI doesn’t hold up. All we wanted was for them to address this and we respect their chance to explain.

moonlightwritingf1 does recieve a lot of engagement and notes on their blog and once our suspicions were raised based on sentence structure, common grammar indications and frequency of posting, we began researching. We used AI detectors (multiple and none of the ones mentioned in their statement) on their back catalogue of one-shots and collected data to support the suspicions. Most of their work was showing up with an 80% AI detection or above on multiple sections in their work (some being 100% where editing wasn’t used).

We eventually put out the polls to see what readers expected from writers. From those results understood that F1 readers wanted transparency in fan-fiction.

We are not the only people who flagged this blog for AI. This sentiment has been shared with multiple writers in the community who will remain anonymous. We do not have multiple fake accounts. It seems there may have been pressure put on by an outsider aware of the research we have been doing and we will look into this. We never intended to harass this blog and created f1tblr1 because we wanted to give them the opportunity to respond. We may not be perfect but there was no harassment from us.

This is also not the only F1 writing blog we have been monitoring. There are many blogs using AI and if those blogs begin building momentum in the f1blr, we will seek clarification from them too.

We are never definitive in our evidence because of the inaccuracies of AI detection and we encourage everyone does their own research. There were many blogs from all around the world that were put through the same process as the blog and most of them came back as 100% human. We have been fair in this process.

Finally, we do have jobs but we are protective of writers and the commitment it takes to create fan-fiction. We feel like it’s a cause worth putting time in to just like writing is to others.

Thank you.

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Which tool are you using to detect AI ? And are you accusations solely based on AI detection tools ? I have found that most of the tools (even the so-called professional ones, claiming 99% accuracy rates I had access through my PHD program) are often widely inaccurate, detecting texts I had just written all on my own as of AI generated to some %, if not 100% . Multiple times. So like... Careful before launching a witch hunt on someone if that's the only kind of evidence you have ?

This is not a witch hunt. We are keeping details limited to give this blog a chance to respond. Some members of the group of us working on this project have gone through PHD programs or work in education and understand the inaccuracies and limitations of AI detection tools. We would never call someone out just based on those alone. There is a clear pattern to their writing and this is why we have decided to speak up about it.

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unfortunately i think a lottt of f1 writers use ai😭 ive been wanting to talk about it because it seems so common now and it so obvious when its ai. im glad ur calling it out

you are correct and thank you for your support ❤️

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We have been following the postings of a Formula 1 writer on Tumblr and are certain they are using AI to write portions and in some cases all of the works they have been posting.

The frequency of postings and structure of sentences was the reason for our suspicion and so began the deep dive into their past work.

In the past few of months we have tracked the portion of their AI usage and once we called them out (and got immediately blocked) they changed up the amount of AI tools they were using and began restructuring their stories to trick the AI detection tools we had been using for this. This was part of our plan to solidify the evidence and confidently call them out.

We have asked them to explain why so much of their work is detected for AI (especially older one shots) but as said, we were blocked. We believe readers should be aware of this going forward in the fan-fiction world.

We have not named this user to give them the chance to step forward and own up to what we have found during this research. They can reach out to us in private and explain why their writing is being flagged for AI but if we don’t get response, we believe people should know blogs that are using AI based on the voting from previous polls.

Thank you.

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Thank you again for voting in this poll.

Last Question~ Do you want to know the blogs who are suspected of using AI to write f1 one-shots?

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(The last poll glitched many apologies)

Thank you to the people voting on this poll.

I have another question~ how would you feel if a writer who gets a lot of engagement on their writing was actually using AI to write those stories?

Would you want to know if there are writers suspected of using AI? Answer in comments.

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Curious question~

Do you as a reader care if fan-fiction is written by an AI generator and published as the authors original work?