The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself

Fanfiction communities are trying to hunt down writers who haven’t written works with their ain hands. | Image: Álvaro Bernis / The Verge

Over the past week, a caller fanworks question has kicked off, with the purpose to basal retired authors utilizing generative AI. But the detection methods being implemented are questionable, and immoderate fanfic writer could beryllium caught successful the crossfire.

Broad distaste astir the usage of Claude, ChatGPT, and different AI tools has agelong been a thing successful creative communities, including the satellite of fanfiction. Readers and writers person passed astir tips for spotting supposedly AI-generated works, citing thing from em dashes to the broad concept of purple prose. But connected June 29th, an anonymous X relationship called @heatedrivalryai promised a seemingly much reliable solution …

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