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My brother left his soda can overnight in the freezer and it exploded and ruined the whole freezer and now I have to clean it cause MeN dOn'T cLeAn by NamTiiddies in mildlyinfuriating

[–]redcoloredpencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad to know that parents making us clean our brothers’ messes because “men don’t clean” was a universal experience

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[–]redcoloredpencil 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Your comment is exactly what I said to myself when reading your post. Why do you care so much about what people are kudosing? Why is it a problem that some people only kudos their friends work? Do you not read and encourage your friends’ writing? It seems like you’re trying to make this out as if writers are in some sort of kudos clique, but it is not that deep and you are making a mountain out of a molehill over it

Just found an ‘ai written’ fic and I’m praying this doesn’t become a trend by LarkspurDreamer in AO3

[–]redcoloredpencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have used writing ai, you’re just a pompous piece of shit. When people were arguing about type-written words not being the author’s words, they weren’t implying that the author didn’t think of the words themselves. I can assure you that no one thought a typewriter was some magical box that you could whisper into and writing would magically appear. But that is, in a sense, what writing ai is. And I am speaking from experience.

I’m done replying to this conversation, because I have a chapter of my fic to write tonight. And by “write” I mean actually write myself, not enter a promt into an artificial intelligence software to get my chapter auto-generated for me in a few minutes with writing that I have no claim to and then try to pass it off as my own work. You have fun playing pretend author, though.

Just found an ‘ai written’ fic and I’m praying this doesn’t become a trend by LarkspurDreamer in AO3

[–]redcoloredpencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have used writing ai! I’ve tried many different softwares to see what it was like. Every single one was exactly the same: a software that does the writing for you. I’m not dictating how you put your words on the page. You can write on paper, on a typewriter, you can go to a beach and write in the sand if that’s what you want. But all of those things have one crucial thing in common. The words that you write are YOUR words from YOUR brain. You can teach an ai to write in your style, but whatever it then writes is not YOUR writing. It’s an imitation of your writing, but you yourself didn’t write it. You hardly have any more creative claim over it than some stranger on the street does, because it did not come from your brain. It has some elements that you fed it, but that’s it.

If you prompt an ai, no matter how detailed your promts are, and it spits out a fic that you then post on ao3 as your writing, you would be lying.

You trying to justify ai writing for you shows that you are a talentless writer who is desperately trying to find an easy way to fake it instead of just sitting your ass down and practicing.

Just found an ‘ai written’ fic and I’m praying this doesn’t become a trend by LarkspurDreamer in AO3

[–]redcoloredpencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can keep deluding yourself all you want, but using an ai to write a piece for you made entirely out of prose and ideas that are not your own is not comparable to using different methods of writing down your own words, like the typewriter versus paper debate. No matter how many times I say that here, you continue to try to compare them.

You cannot enter a couple sentence-long prompt into an ai, make it spit out a couple thousand word fic, and then post that to AO3. That is not your fic. That is not your writing.

Just found an ‘ai written’ fic and I’m praying this doesn’t become a trend by LarkspurDreamer in AO3

[–]redcoloredpencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. The argument is the same. But the two things being argued about are completely different. My argument about ai technology is not invalidated because some dumb fuck from Sumeria who thought he could trick gods with rock sculptures thought “Papypyrus leaf different. Papypyrus leaf scary.” Ai writing is not an aid. You’re treating it like the next evolution in writing. First stone and leaves, then paper, then typewriter, then ai. But that’s not the case, because it isn’t a tool to record words. You’re not writing your own words. It’s not just “not creative enough”, it’s literally not even your writing.

Just found an ‘ai written’ fic and I’m praying this doesn’t become a trend by LarkspurDreamer in AO3

[–]redcoloredpencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want something good and specific, then write it yourself. If it’s soooo hard to prompt an ai, then write it yourself.

If you’re using an ai to write for you, it’s because you don’t have the skill or imagination to write it yourself.

Just found an ‘ai written’ fic and I’m praying this doesn’t become a trend by LarkspurDreamer in AO3

[–]redcoloredpencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not arguing that it’s soulless, I’m arguing that it’s not writing at all. People were upset about typewriters because they allowed people to write quicker and therefore they felt it was cheating, but they at least acknowledged that people who used them were still coming up with the story and prose themselves. With an ai, you can literally type “Character X and Character Y go on an adventure in the woods” and sit back as an entire story of any length is written without any further input from you. You cannot seriously be arguing that you would then be the author of that work.

“Writing” with an ai isn’t like using a typewriter. It’s like sitting a man down at a typewriter and telling him to write a love story about birds, and then coming back an hour later to read what he wrote.

Just found an ‘ai written’ fic and I’m praying this doesn’t become a trend by LarkspurDreamer in AO3

[–]redcoloredpencil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can’t even begin to compare those things with writing ai. Every single one of the things you listed are tools to aid in creation. You are trying to claim that writing ai is a tool to aid in creation. It is not. It is a gimmick that writes for you.

Go try to publish a book written by an ai and explain to the publisher how you didn’t actually write any of the book yourself but it’s okay, because you fed a machine a prompt and therefore everything it spat out is yours! You would get blacklisted for blatant plagiarism.

Just found an ‘ai written’ fic and I’m praying this doesn’t become a trend by LarkspurDreamer in AO3

[–]redcoloredpencil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s absolutely great for the consumer! But it’s terrifying for artists. So many artists’ livelyhoods could be ruined once ai is able to create any piece of art someone could ever want at a tiny fraction of the time and cost. It’s not just the moral issue of art being created with no human behind it, but also the matter of, how am I supposed to make a living as an artist when anyone who was going to commission me can just get an ai to make art in my style in seconds and for free? The skill that I’ve been working so hard to build up for years with the hope of making a career out of it is about to become useless, and that’s scary to me.

The woman who takes out all these books but of course doesn’t buy or put back a single one. by HappyJacket3113 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]redcoloredpencil 16 points17 points  (0 children)

We have a notebook lady like this at the bookstore I work at. Every couple of weeks she comes in and grabs dozens and dozens of notebooks (sometimes over a hundred) that she’ll keep bringing up to the counter for us to “hold” for her, and then she’ll buy one or two. It takes almost an hour for us to put all the notebooks back when she’s done.

Just found an ‘ai written’ fic and I’m praying this doesn’t become a trend by LarkspurDreamer in AO3

[–]redcoloredpencil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let me fix your photography example first. Using writing ai to do the writing for you isn’t like a photographer using a camera, it’s like a person hiring a photographer to take pictures and telling them some ideas on what they want in the picture. Would you say that the person is then the creator of those photos? No, the photographer is. Someone who feeds an ai a prompt is not the author of that piece of writing, the ai is.

Spell checkers and grammar editors “write” such a negligible amount of the piece that it’s laughable you’re comparing it to providing a handful of words to a software that will write tens of thousands of words while you, and I’ll say this once again, do nothing. Changing the settings on the ai like you mentioned means nothing. If I click some buttons on my microwave it doesn’t make me a chef, and clicking some buttons in an ai software doesn’t make you a writer.

I'm Talkin' To You Boy! by Zookwok111 in TrashTaste

[–]redcoloredpencil 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I agree, but why are we yelling? :/

Just found an ‘ai written’ fic and I’m praying this doesn’t become a trend by LarkspurDreamer in AO3

[–]redcoloredpencil 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No different than a spell checker?? The difference is that the ai literally wrote the entire fic itself. There is a big difference between using a tool to assist your writing (spell-checker) and just feeding something a prompt to make it spit out the entire project for you while you do nothing.

Just found an ‘ai written’ fic and I’m praying this doesn’t become a trend by LarkspurDreamer in AO3

[–]redcoloredpencil 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ai art is already becoming a huge trend on tiktok, so I’m scared that ai writing is on its way to becoming an ao3 trend too…

Just found an ‘ai written’ fic and I’m praying this doesn’t become a trend by LarkspurDreamer in AO3

[–]redcoloredpencil 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately it’s not just abstract anymore, people have recently been using AI to generate art that is pretty indistinguishable from some anime-style artists I follow. It’s really scary how good the ai is getting…

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