Evidence has been found that AI's are being trained on AO3. I'm uncomfortable, but not panicked, though I've taken the precautionary step of locking my fic to archive only for the moment.

I don't think that training AI's using publicly accessible fiction is straight up plagiarism, and until there's evidence that AI's are lifting sections of existing works that'll remain my stance, but I do think AI's being used to write fiction is going to be kind of soulless, and maybe even a little bit cheaty?

It's got to be tempting. Blocked? Prompt the AI to give you your next scene starter, or the entire scene, or hell, just let it write the entire fic and then collect all the sweet sweet kudos without having to do any actual work.

But when I'm reading, I want the fic to be emotion-heavy. I X-out of boring fic, whether it's got all the right tags or not, and I do believe AI fic is going to be boring as hell. You can have plot twists and action and all of that shit but if there's no human emotion I'm gone.

AI has already been used to write fanfic. I tried to read it, but it lacked any kind of emotion. Someone died and I didn't care. Sure, a human being can absolutely write boring fic, but I find it very hard to believe that an AI is going to be able to write fic that has heart and soul.

And one has to wonder if the cycle of scraping and writing and scraping and writing continues—and if AI fic becomes an acceptable way of writing—what AI fic will be like in the future.

Soulless, at the least. And probably really shitty.