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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[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!

[rynling]

For what it's worth, I found that the tool tends to be more accurate when you enter larger blocks of text.

To check its accuracy for myself, I entered text from five of my recent stories: two fanfics posted on AO3, two original stories, and one barely-edited WIP. When I entered the first paragraph of each piece, there were two false flags. When I entered the first three paragraphs instead, there were zero false flags.

Again, definitely a "for what it's worth" situation, but still.

Also hooray for finding a mistake in the first paragraph after posting. That is the story of my life lmao.