Sunny

In light of recent discoveries I would like to request that those who upload my books to piracy websites please use non-AI scraping ones. Specifically, my book has appeared on a lesser known piracy website which runs an AI over the book to create summaries. This is bad because it means it is probably using that data to train an AI somewhere, too.
          
          To be clear, I don't care if you pirate my books or send the PDFs to others or whatever. Amazon pays me like nothing at all per book so I care more about growing an audience/sharing my stories than actually making money from them. _However_ I ask that those who are pirating them please use reliable piracy databased like Anna's Archive, Library Genesis, etc. Or, just ask me for the PDF itself and I'll give it to you directly. 
          
          Please, if you see a website uses AI to scrape the book in any way, including to create autogenerated summaries, do NOT put my book or anyone else's into that website. 
          
          To be honest, this message is probably preaching to the choir a bit because I don't think it was any of you, but it is worth it to me to put a message out about my stance on it anyway.
          
          Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. 
          Sunny

Also, i am officially obsessed with The Amazing Digital Circus

Alright, taking a vote on which to update next: 
          - stealing your heart
          - behind golden bars (neko/royalty) 
          - something else

New Stealing Your Heart chapter posted!

FUCK I SHOULD HAVE DONE APRIL FOOLS YESTERDAY AND INSTEAD I POSTED A REAL ACTUAL CHAPTER

Behind Golden Bars (neko/royalty) updated! not to get you guys too excited but...physical touch may or may not exist in this chapter. have fun

I braved Wattpad to search for fanfic to read for the first time in a very long time (I usually use AO3 for my most recent fandom) and I barely scrolled at all before I got to fics with "written by chatgpt" declared right in the title. On one hand I'm glad it was written there so I didn't even have to get as far as reading the description but on the other hand I'm severely disappointed in the fact that it exists here in the first place. 
          
          There is NO valid reason to use any form of generative AI to write stories. If there is a story prompt you want to see, write it yourself. I don't want to see anyone saying their writing isn't good enough to write it themselves because /that's the point/. You are stealing away the opportunity to one day be good enough to write your thoughts and dreams for yourself. I mean, hell, if you need evidence, go read my earliest fics compared to my later ones. How the fuck would I have ever gotten here if I had a robot steal stories on my behalf? 
          
          On top of that, I would like to remind you all that OpenAI has signed a deal with the US government which will likely end with it being used for mass surveillance and military efforts. If you have an account with this service, delete it. It is a genuine safety hazard at this point, on TOP of the safety risks it has already posed before and the deaths and psychosis it has already caused. 
          
          And on top of /that/ there are of course the well-known issues with environmental impact and copyright infringement that using generative AI causes. 
          
          Stay away from these services. I say this as a computer scientist AND a writer both--generative AI is not safe in the form that we currently have it, and it's an exploitative tool that hurts our communities.

Oh my god they added the social feed back  they got rid of that YEARS ago and I was so glad it's gone why do we have an option to spy on what other people are reading again lmao 

I've been in an off mood so much recently I may end up updating my nightmare before Christmas au despite the fact that it is currently March LMAO. Somehow I am in the mood to write but only if it is something where all the characters are Off and A Little Bit Monstrous 
          
          How are you all doing? 

stealing your heart ch 13 out now! i had to cut out a part to save for the next chapter instead because it's 2:30 in the morning and i need to go to bed haha