there has been recent controversy going around a specific byler fanfic creator on ao3 who has been accused of using Claude AI in their fanfic(s) and I need to express my stance on this.
writing in general is meant to celebrate ideas. each person has a unique style of writing and there is no such thing as a bad style. no matter how many spelling or grammatical mistakes you make, your words are still beautiful because they originated in your brain and you put the time and effort into making them reality. sometimes, hours are spent writing over and over, over and over again just to make sure that what you read in front of you is exactly how you picture it in your head.
ai snatches all of this and throws it away. the sublime power you held in your hands with your ideas has been snatched straight out of your palms and ripped up. it might seem that whatever ai creates is "perfect", but in reality it is the most imperfect thing to ever exist. ai is nothing but machine code. it doesn't have the ability to think in the same way you do. it doesn't have the ability to feel emotions the same way you feel. all it does is follow your orders like it is nothing but your slave. the saddest part is that in today's world we, on the contrary, have become ai's slaves. we feel like we need a bot to tell us what to write, as if generating paragraphs and paragraphs from a single prompt will supposedly make our stories better.
your words matter because they are your words. don't lose whatever sense of identity you have to an inanimate program in front of you.
