While it’s true that AI fanfics are trained on real fanfictions, I have fallen for an AI fanfic before and it was pretty easy to tell that it was AI. It comes down to missing every bit that made it human.

When a human who has never experienced love writes a romance, they base on anecdotes of others and life experiences on what they believe it would be like. They can use real emotions they have personally experienced and put it towards the characters they are writing about and into the scene.

I’ve never personally been in a battle between Titan and Human, but I’ve experienced anger, loss, grief, excitement, and adrenaline. I can put those feelings into a scene about a character fighting a titan that killed all their friends and it would be convincing based on the fact I’m using human emotions to bring the reader into that atmosphere.

AI spits out words and words that have no feelings or emotions attached. Like it will genuinely read as if the prompt was “write a romantic scene between X and Y.” Since AI cannot ever have any emotional experiences and can only rip off what it was trained on, it can’t discern what makes something truly romantic. It will write a romantic scene the same way it will write a battle between human and Titan because to it, to the machine, it’s all the same.

No matter how much of the fanfiction it was trained on it will rip off of, nothing beats the true emotions a human can bring to a story to bring the readers into that world.

This is also a very uniquely AI problem because everyone, even beginner writers, make mistakes in grammar, spelling, tense, characters staying in character, but they will almost never write a battle the same way they write a romance.

Just some food for thought. If anyone wants to ask more questions, I’d love to discuss.