The latest escalation in fandom’s AI culture war.
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on Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr, a slew of authors have been receiving apparent spam comments on Archive of Our Own , one of the most popular fanworks websites. In its earliest iteration, the comment looked like this:The authors in question have denied using AI tools, and some comments were seemingly left on fics that predate the tools they’re accused of using. The consensus is that it’s a type of spam, and AO3’s operatorsIt’s also, however, frustrating to authors.
One reason this bothers authors so much is that — compared to most well-known social platforms — AO3 is a very intimate space. Comments on fanfiction are a community-building tool that many site members take very seriously and celebrate receiving at all. On Reddit, one author lamented getting their first-ever response to a posted work... and realizing that it was “that fucking AI comment.”
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