Thank you Dragon Age fandom... I guess??
Feb. 14th, 2025 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingQuillbot 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.
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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Date: 2025-02-14 03:10 pm (UTC)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.
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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.