I Don't Need It And Yet Need It So Badly

Saw my first post with someone admitting they used chatGPT to ‘write a fic’ which they then shared here on tumblr and on Ao3.

To be clear, using AI to churn out a piece of fiction is not writing.

Using a bot (possibly one that was trained using a scrape of Ao3, that is to say, the theft of work from every writer who has posted their work on Ao3) is NOT WRITING.

It is theft. It isn’t creation. It’s a regurgitation of the consumed collective work and effort and heart and time of every writer who has shared their work on Ao3.

‘I’m not a good writer’ is no excuse.

Want to be a writer? Put in the time everyone else does to practice.

Don’t feel confident in your work? Open yourself up to the same vulnerability and risk that the rest of us do.

You don’t get to use a fucking bot to vomit out an approximation of a story and pretend you’ve got skin in the game.

The sad thing? This bot-assembled fic wasn’t bad. It was bland, but it had internal logic, some passing context to character and canon. It wasn’t like those early AI art pieces that had surreal compositions and extra fingers. It wasn’t immediately obvious it was made by a bot.

In this instance the person who posted it admitted they had used a bot. Which, actually, I have some respect for. But it probably isn’t the first and it won’t be the last.

I don’t know that there’s a solution to this, but it is both hurting my heart and enraging me.

I want cool bug wings. cool transparent bug wings that flap real fast. I want to fly around like a dragonfly. I've wanted this for quite some time and I thought I would share

A haiku for my headache

Stop hurting my brain

Please Motrin work you magic

I want peace my friend

cute 🫵 stunning 🫵 brilliant 🫵 kind 🫵 gorgeous 🫵 lovely 🫵 incredible 🫵 immaculate 🫵 witty 🫵 dehydrated 🫵 malnourished 🫵 loved 🫵

Please continue about your business

For anyone wondering how to easily open up inserting an equation into Microsoft word all you have to hit is alt and =. It takes way less time to write out notes and make equations.

When the tism is tisming