#wiz.yaps

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unfortunately i am quite endeared by franco colapinto's rizzful and strange ways

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old enough to have experienced fedal, young enough to witness the rise of whatever is going on between that long limbed italian dude and his ball of sunshine mediterranean twink. what a time to be alive

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anon, i have neither the spoons nor energy to go into great depth right now but all i will say is

1. pls don't use "not everyone is good at english" to divert the conversation about writing fic with AI. because it's not about the language you're writing in, it's that using AI to write fic in my opinion fundamentally undermines the spirit of writing something, where the process of it and learning how to do it, is equally important as the outcome.

2. the whataboutism of this argument ("but writing f1 drivers fucking is not ethical anyway") doesn't hold water. a bunch of people writing stories for free on the internet with a community understanding that it should never be shown to the actual teams or drivers =/= people using LLMs, which directly profit off the back of said free work btw, to generate art for clout.

3. finally nobody is able to force you not to use AI, or stop you from doing it. it's certainly A Choice tho.

I think you guys are thinking too much about it. AI or no AI a fic is a fic. It doesn't matter. You think you writing about real people is ethical? Writing them fucking and with controversial pairings? AI is all over the place like get used to it. If someone is using AI to fix their errors, or to just improve some writing why tf do you care? Y'all are just entitled. Not everyone's great at English. Just stfu and LET people write what they want. God.

hi, this is such an ignorant ask i'm incredibly surprised you felt confident enough to hit send! but i'll engage with you in good faith regardless.

yes, there are debates about the ethics of writing RPF, but i think comparing them to the ethical debates about the use of AI is frankly quite laughable. not only does AI have an incredibly detrimental impact on the environment, the impacts are likely to be unequal and hit already resource-strained environments the hardest. (i am providing sources for you here, something i'm assuming you're unfamiliar with since you are so in favour of relying on AI to generate 'original' thought). moreover, many AI models rely on data scraping in order to train these models. it is very often the case that creators of works on the internet - for example, ao3 - do not give consent for their works to be used to train these models. it raises ethical questions about ownership of content, and of intellectual property beyond fanfiction. comparing these ethical dilemmas to the ethics of rpf is not an argument that convinces me, nor i'm sure does it convince many others.

"AI is all over the place like get used to it" - frankly, i'm not surprised you're so supportive of AI, if this is the best argument in its favour you can muster. you know what else is all over the place?? modern slavery! modern slavery's extremely commonplace across the world, anti-slavery international estimate that about 50 million people globally are living in modern slavery. following the line of your argument, since modern slavery is so commonplace, this must make it okay, and we should get used to it. the idea that just because something is everywhere makes it acceptable is a logical fallacy. do you see how an overreliance on AI reduces your ability to critically think, and to form arguments for yourself?

please explain to me how i'm entitled for thinking that relying on AI to produce something of generally, extremely poor quality, is poor behaviour on your part, or the part of other people who do it. you don't have to write fanfiction in english, and if you do struggle with english, there are MANY talented betas in this fandom who i'm sure would be willing to lend a hand and fix SPAG. you are NOT going to improve your english by getting AI to fix it for you.

as @wisteriagoesvroom helpfully pointed out "art is an act of emotion and celebration and joy and defiance. it is an unshakeable, unstoppable feeling that idea that must and should be expressed" - this is not something you can achieve via the use of AI. you might think it's not that deep, but for many people who dedicate hours of their time to writing fanfiction, it feels very much like a slap in the face. and what's more, it produces negligible benefits for the person who is engaging in creating AI fanfiction.

i agree with you that people should write whatever they want, but the operative word in that statement is write. i do not, and will not ever consider inputting prompts into chatgpt a sincere form of artistic creation. thanks!

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unstoppable force (spanish nepo baby yappatron 3000) meets immovable object (clinically insane australian capybara)

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hey have we moved on too quickly from when carlos and oscar collided in miami, then oscar tumbled down like 14 places, then had to pit and then roared out of the pitlane so obviously mad — without saying a single word on the radio — and then proceeded to whip out fastest lap after fastest lap until his team had to tell him to slow down so that he didn’t cause a safety car?

cus i felt like we moved on too quickly from that

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me: I WANT TO WRITE

also me: doesn't

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i understand anon's feeling about it being cliquey on here. i do. but, also no wonder I had no chance making it on here -> this is not... american idol? if you're framing fandom interaction and community as some sort of popularity competition you are probably setting yourself up to own-goal tbh. and if you're wading into fandom spaces with that intent, there's a high probability you're not going to have a good time.

at the risk of sounding like a fandom old: post the stuff you enjoy and curate your spaces. put out the energy you'd like to receive back. and like, if people respond... they respond! if you don't like a specific community or niche, honestly, f1 rpf in general is big and broad enough that you will probably find someone or a lane eventually. and if you don't, just enjoy it on your own terms ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

there is definitely a performative aspect to social media. but like the number one rule of fandom imo is... it's for you!! and maybe some other weirdos. but never forget that it's on your relational terms and if you go in with that, it's probably gonna feel a lot more rewarding than trying to meet some invisible bar of status or validation.

I've just realised that most blogs are connected/ know one another. the checo blog, the max blogs, the alex blog, the lance blog and you. No wonder I had no chance making it on here, you lot hate together or rather stick together

Hi anon, first off — I’m very sorry that you’ve been feeling excluded! That’s rough! I’m going to be honest that I have no idea which blogs you’re referring to, and I’ve been sitting here wracking my brain trying to parse it (I mean “the checo blog” could only be a couple of people, but otherwise….)

What I’m not going to do is apologize for making friends. I love my community on here and I’m so lucky to have them. With one exception, they are friends I made by posting and interacting on tumblr, not by prior acquaintance. I’m a little bit shy about reaching out but I love meeting new people & I’m happy to chat any time, and I’m sure that most people feel the same!

I’m not really sure what you mean by “making it on here” — I don’t think I’ve “made it” in any meaningful way, and I don’t think tumblr even allows for that in a real sense, given that stats like follower counts are invisible. I apologize, however, if my blog is a hateful presence. I really try not to post negative or hurtful things, but I seem to have fallen short for you. Please feel free to unfollow and block me if it will make your tumblr experience more pleasant <3

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the jarring realisation that a new babygirl has spawned in the ferrari garage and charles is now the older one

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normal person: wait you write sports rpf

me: my works are short form speculative fiction for a closed writers community in which we deftly explore the authorial limits of media meganarratives and find symbolic meaning in the subtextual hyperhomoeroticism of late stage capitalist sport.

also me: so yes

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levels

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guys remember that “driver as other nationalities” poll where there was canadian charles. i stand by my take that quebecois charles would be a vision, a sight, an experience

charles' commitment to slightly dangerous winter side quests makes him an honorary canadian to me

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hey can someone tell me which gay netflix romcom this is

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wait i'm crying

thanks @dumbf1sketches for choosing the carcar pics in the first place

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got jumpscared by these ‘cus it looks like he is a junior analyst at an investment bank

from mclaren’s ig

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CARCAR WAR IS OVER (for this week)

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the chronicles of these two basically never touching on camera but then lando will go right into oscar’s space and oscar doesn’t even budge a single inch like. hello???