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    People are using AI but not disclosing it. How do you detect it ?

    True, but less people than you might think. Saying that you're AI free when you're not is an active lie. It requires you to intentionally take action so as to decieve. Simply not declaring yourself Ai is a passive lie. You don't actually have to do anything - it's much easier to justify to...
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    People are using AI but not disclosing it. How do you detect it ?

    Okay, but who decides what comes from an LLM? Who has permission to decide who gets to be mocked? Who are you willing to give so much power that they can point to any one of us who dares to post their own content and go ''You! You are an officially sanctioned Bad Person and I give everyone the...
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    What’s the difference between criticizing and straight up bullying an author on these forums (SB, QQ, SV, etc)?

    Personal attacks and persistence. Personal attacks are the obvious ones - when you start to sling shit at someone for who or what they are rather than what they're doing or writing it becomes clear your goal isn't actually to criticise than it is to have a shield to be nasty to them without...
  4. BronzePlaceWriter

    Is translation of your own work into French allowed?

    Kinda a necessity really. If you post non-english works, who knows what it says? How many of the staff can read it to make sure it is what you say it is? If none of the staff can, well, guess they just have to take your word for it. And even if some of them are able to read it, 90% of normal...
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    Two Sentence Story (Horror, humor, tragedy, anything!)

    "Who needs skin anyway," I asked. "I do," said the skin monster.
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    Penalty for not disclosing ai work

    As a professional writer, I can assure you that writing has not, in fact, been destroyed as a field of art. I did it yesterday. Unless you're defining art so strictly that no modern writing can qualify in which case I'd question if any kind of art can stand up that level of scrutiny. A story...
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    Penalty for not disclosing ai work

    Doesn't that make a good point for the thread as a whole, though? This was clearly and obviously not written by Ai, but if it still seems like it is to you, that's a false positive. The exact kind of thing a lot of us are worried about.
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    Penalty for not disclosing ai work

    Obviously, I am one person and my work doesn't speak for everyone, but the advent of Ai has actually made it so clients are less likely to trust new authors but more likely to trust older authors they already know. Talking to my clients, several have admitted that they now prioritise me over...
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    Penalty for not disclosing ai work

    It honestly depresses me sometimes to see how many people are chomping at the bit to absolutely fucking ruin some poor, new writer's day because they wrote in a way that someone decided was Ai and then that person argued a bunch of other people around. Seriously, I don't know why this is so...
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    Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

    Yeah, that's another issue too. There are authors who will take anything less than 5 as being a personal insult and then there are also readers who consider anything less than a perfect five to mean the story is worthless and both those also can cause drama when they run into more reasonable...
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    Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

    It's a fun idea and I can get the thought behind it, but it reminds me of Literotica's rating system and that's not a great look. Literotica's rating system is a poisonous put of vipers, for those unaware. Anything below four and a half stars is considered horrifically bad and because people...
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    Two Sentence Story (Horror, humor, tragedy, anything!)

    "Murder is when you cause the death of real people. So you see, no matter how many of them I killed, it doesn't count."
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    Two Sentence Story (Horror, humor, tragedy, anything!)

    "We hunted the whale for its blubber and tossed it back into the sea when we were done. Yesterday, our man in the crow's nest reported its body had surfaced again, closer this time."
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    Thoughts about Discord's use by authors

    They backed off in the sense that they are not going full bore right this instant as they originally planned. Had they done so, the damage to their reputation would have been considerably worse. I personally find it questionable on whether they'll actually pull back from the concept or admit...
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    How do I know when I’m asking for validation?

    But late, and this is a more generic answer than the good one that's already been given, but work on introspection and emotional awareness. When you're feeling a way, try to figure out why you're feeling that way. Interrogate your emotions and ask yourself why you are asking the questions you...
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