Oh, definitely. Some writers do indeed have high wordcounts, and every day I’m grateful that they’re willing to put in the time to edit their writing and share the bounty of their work.
I will admit that I didn’t look at this mess for very long, but what seems to be the source of this particular Dragon Age flamewar is that one of the writers accused of using AI to post an unending flood of these massive fanfic novels is behaving badly by going on the warpath and claiming that the concerns regarding their use of AI are an attack on their preferred ship. Just basic fandom wank.
I think what the people expressing concern originally wanted is for the “authors” to label their work properly on AO3, which seems reasonable.
My own personal preference would be to get this shit off AO3 entirely. It’s super toxic to the community ecosystem, and it’s a direct challenge to the legal boundaries that allow transformative work to exist in the first place. Also I hate all the slop appearing in the tags, so there’s that as well.
In any case, it’s marginally interesting to see larger cultural concerns reflected in the microcosm of fandom, but there are other uses for my time on this earth.
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Date: 2025-02-15 05:57 pm (UTC)I will admit that I didn’t look at this mess for very long, but what seems to be the source of this particular Dragon Age flamewar is that one of the writers accused of using AI to post an unending flood of these massive fanfic novels is behaving badly by going on the warpath and claiming that the concerns regarding their use of AI are an attack on their preferred ship. Just basic fandom wank.
I think what the people expressing concern originally wanted is for the “authors” to label their work properly on AO3, which seems reasonable.
My own personal preference would be to get this shit off AO3 entirely. It’s super toxic to the community ecosystem, and it’s a direct challenge to the legal boundaries that allow transformative work to exist in the first place. Also I hate all the slop appearing in the tags, so there’s that as well.
In any case, it’s marginally interesting to see larger cultural concerns reflected in the microcosm of fandom, but there are other uses for my time on this earth.