Thank you Dragon Age fandom... I guess??

[rynling]

Quillbot AI Detector
https://quillbot.com/ai-content-detector

I've found that AI detectors tend to be hit or miss, but this one seems to work well. What I especially appreciate about the way it works is that it's able to detect text that was generated by AI and then altered, either by hand or by another AI program.

I learned about this through discourse in the Dragon Age fandom, by the way. Apparently, you can now enter a short prompt into Gemini with the name of a character or ship, and the AI can match this keyword not only with the fandom, but also with its specific writing tropes.

If you're curious about the wank, people have been arguing about whether it's possible to write a 400k-word novel in a month. What this ridiculous argument underlines is the fact that there is a substantial (and passionate) audience for novels written by AI. This is dystopian, and I hate it.

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[kalloway]

the AI can match this keyword not only with the fandom, but also with its specific writing tropes.

This doesn't surprise me, for a big enough fandom, but I rather expect it'd be shit.

whether it's possible to write a 400k-word novel in a month

I did enough NaNo meet-ups over the years to know it's absolutely possible. Did that person write a readable, coherent, good 500k+ novel? They sure didn't! But it was absolutely a fuckton of words. (and if I want garbage, I'd still rather it be human-made garbage because at least it'll be garbage with soul)

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you for the link! This could be handy in my work as an editor, and also proved useful in a way I wasn't anticipating: I entered the opening of my most recently posted fic, out of curiosity, and it highlighted one paragraph as potentially refined by AI after being human-written. I hadn't used AI in any way, so I took a look at the paragraph, and I noticed an embarrassing mistake in it; I'd somehow written 'the two of us' instead of 'the two of them' in the narration of a third-person fic. So I've fixed that now; thank you for unintentionally helping me catch it!

[runicmagitek]

That sound you heard was me screaming into my coffee ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

ANYHOW. RE: can you write 400k words on a month... as mentioned above, I've definitely seen people crank out a ridiculous amount of words for NaNo in the past. I've even coughed up a lot of words in a month!! Not 400k, but I did have one (1) 150k month, which was only possible bc A) I was young, B) I wasn't working, C) I had no bills to worry about, and D) I was having a manic episode the whole time. Was what I wrote good?? It was probably salvageable. Were my methods healthy? Uhhhh no lol. Was it kinda possible under super specific circumstances? Kinda...?

And even then, I'm leaning to "yeah that sounds like AI" in this Dragon Age scenario. Which sucks, bc I'd prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt, but what the legitimate fuck. Thanks for calling this out. I also hate it.