Clarification regarding AI policy

[spktr alpha]

I'm kinda ambivalent to this as well. So far no AI has managed to wow me as a co-writer, only as a proof reader.

Though to be honest it feels kinda hypocritical to say AI is theft when we're all writing fanfic and oggling R34 of licensed works.

One sore spot for me is generated images. Because the art community in general is ridiculously toxic in the first place and the common joke for antis is 'Kill AI Artists' and targeted harassment of perceived users of AI whether true or not. Letting that flavor of chronically online persons is not going to make QQ a healthy community.

 

[klassekatze]

Even when it's noticeable that it's AI-assisted for anyone with experience, you see plenty of fics in this very site with people enjoying them just fine. Obviously I'm not going to point them out both because I may be wrong and out of respect for them.

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TBH I've suddenly become unable to unsee certain patterns in some pretty long and popular fics and it's lowkey annoying that apparently no one, including the author, sees it?

I don't understand why the authors look at a prospective chapter or edit and see this shit and are just like "yeah that's the good shit give it to me baby." Or inappropriate or awkward descriptive babble, like "Kestrel smiled with the economy of someone who rationed expressions.", "Arthur rubbed his chin, feeling the grit of regolith still lodged in the pores.", `I'm wiping the same spot again—counter gleams like the Belt's last clean glacier—when the tentacled stranger lands on the stool in front of me. The dreads twitch like sleepy metacuttlefish, and a faint smell of ozone drifts off the coat that used to be white. "Vega whisky, neat. Better make that a double," they say, voice low, the kind of low you only get after screaming for three days straight.`

Despite arguing otherwise earlier, it is kind of hard to criticise this kind of incoherency constructively without either implying they used AI editing or implying the author is on drugs, you know?

The fucked thing is you can absolutely mitigate it with prompt engineering, but the fact that people post it suggests they don't see it as a problem to be fixed in the first place.

 

[doll]

the fact that people post it suggests they don't see it as a problem to be fixed in the first place.

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That just suggests that they can't write, though? I don't really see what that has to do with AI. Serials that are long and popular and absolutely not worth reading is nothing new. You're right that there may be no real constructive feedback to give, but nothing is stopping you from just dropping the fic without a word.

The AI slop is just a regurgitation of existing, human slop. What are you going to do, ask authors to tag their works as poorly written?

 

[tacobowl8]

Enough. If you want to snipe at each other, take it to High Noon in rants. If you want to debate AI usage etc. go to one of the other threads about it.

 

[Reman Septim]

Oh, we're not doing the Butlerian Jihad here. Thanks for the clarification.