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Evidence has been found that AI's are being trained on AO3. I'm uncomfortable, but not panicked, though I've taken the precautionary step of locking my fic to archive only for the moment.

I don't think that training AI's using publicly accessible fiction is straight up plagiarism, and until there's evidence that AI's are lifting sections of existing works that'll remain my stance, but I do think AI's being used to write fiction is going to be kind of soulless, and maybe even a little bit cheaty?

It's got to be tempting. Blocked? Prompt the AI to give you your next scene starter, or the entire scene, or hell, just let it write the entire fic and then collect all the sweet sweet kudos without having to do any actual work.

But when I'm reading, I want the fic to be emotion-heavy. I X-out of boring fic, whether it's got all the right tags or not, and I do believe AI fic is going to be boring as hell. You can have plot twists and action and all of that shit but if there's no human emotion I'm gone.

AI has already been used to write fanfic. I tried to read it, but it lacked any kind of emotion. Someone died and I didn't care. Sure, a human being can absolutely write boring fic, but I find it very hard to believe that an AI is going to be able to write fic that has heart and soul.

And one has to wonder if the cycle of scraping and writing and scraping and writing continues--and if AI fic becomes an acceptable way of writing--what AI fic will be like in the future.

Soulless, at the least. And probably really shitty.

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This fucking original character that kept insinuating himself in everything I wrote for a while.

Sometime in April 2020, during the first Covid lockdown here in Aotearoa, I invented an original character for a Dean/OMC fic. His name is Ryan, and I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

Ryan is an Apocalypse World hunter. He was invented for and first appeared in Minutes to Midnight, an angsty slow burn bittersweet S14 fic that may or may not ever be completed and published. I needed someone new and complicated for Dean to fall in love with for the plot and Ryan was born. I wrote a good chunk of this fic, but it was heavy, and I lapsed.

I was finishing WIPs and posting a lot during the first lockdown, but I was also writing new stuff. There's a couple other things I started writing with the intent of wincest endgame but suddenly and inexplicably, Ryan would appear in them and derail my plans.

Sometimes it was the exact same surly, broody Ryan as in Minutes to Midnight. Most of the time he was a little different. Different scars, different personality, different levels of aggression.

But he was always scarred in some way and he always wanted to bone Dean (and vice versa).

So because he kept inserting himself into my fic, I started referring to him as 'fucking Ryan', and it's a fun double entendre. First, he's fucking annoying (that fucking guy), but it's also what Dean wants to be doing, so.

A note from the middle of a post-Carry On fixit I was working on, sometime after I stopped writing Minutes to Midnight:

woops, I'm veering sideways into Dean/OMC territory. Fucking Ryan keeps popping up and wanting to fuck Dean. But it might be easier for Dean to do that with a virtual stranger. It's hard enough to get brothers to fuck much less do that while also giving Dean angsty hangups. I think he'll be freer with someone not Sam.

This was the first time I referred to him as Fucking Ryan.

There was also a post-15x19 fic.

Then there was Scars and Something You Like. I don't know which of the two I have published so far came first, only that Scars was the first I posted, and then, months and months later, I found Something You Like on my hard drive, needing only a tidy, so I posted that, too.

For a little while, I believed that I would never post another version of Ryan after Scars. It seemed weird to have written the same OC (with subtle differences) into two different stories that essentially existed in different universes.

But fuck it. If Chuck can do it, no reason why I shouldn't 🤣

I love this fandom.

ETA: there's now a series based around one of the versions of this character.

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