… “nonverbal = permanent / long term ONLY” not just abt some haha another tiny detail to police that only chronically online social media ppl care abt when there Real Problems Going On In World How Dare You bc like

so many times just want peace not want spend already limited words explain that concept… of not have energy or… or theory of mind forget ppl not know that… or again just like. don’t wanna, not obligated to!!! n just say “am nonverbal” casually or talk abt nonverbal ppl nonverbality nonverbal i/dd ppl etc

n then at *best* they at first message respond w sth like “oh me too when i go nonverbal” or sth that let me know oh they not understand

but usually what happen be like

talk talk talk go for while maybe even talk good and then THEN realize oh we not talk abt same thing at ALL. that when they say relate they don’t relate. when feel oh maybe am not alone someone else experience same, am actually so very alone. when am saying real n true n research backed things abt nonverbal ppl, they misinterpret to mean different thing n now they believe in wrong information n gonna go on spread misinformation.

n vast majority cases prob be ppl passive scrolling by, or convo end without ever realizing, that they interpret what am say abt nonverbal as. what actually be verbal shutdown. n me person who say thing not even realize own message misinterpreted.

bc actual nonverbal ppl not exist to lot people majority people even. like it not just that we not first thing they think of (when it be what it supposed to mean!!) (altho it do be true), not that we second thought, not “oh right and those ppl exist,” it also that we not thought of at. all.

[pt: we not thought of at. all.]

“nonverbal” be so misused n popularized that actual nonverbal ppl literally erased from that term

Tails P1

the sunk cost fallacy has been my favorite fallacy for as long as I can remember. so at this point it's probably too late to pick a different one

(in case no one has said this to you in a while) i am proud of you for continuing to exist when it feels impossible

Morphological differences between thorns, spines, and prickles

i wonder what music they are playing

welcome to the 14th week of january

I am very under tattooed, I need to lock in

yeah yeah having a crush is embarassing but have you ever watched yourself develop a new category 5 character obsession in real time. agonizingly humiliating shit

idk a lot of people on tumblr are super into this weird mentality of "well i'm [x group] so i can't be [bigoted against x group]" and i'm like yes, yes, you can. literally everyone knows this. you just would rather use your identity as a shield against examining how you've also been exposed to the same bigoted narratives that harm the group you're in as everyone else instead of, like, actually building solidarity with other people like you.

Avoidance is the worst reaction to stress. Oh this thing is giving me anxiety? And it's something I could prepare for by looking at it more or learning things about the topic? No, I will take psychological damage if I look at it directly. I will still be thinking about it and be stressed though.

well maybe i don't wanna work in a fast-paced, flexible environment that requires great verbal communication skills

you guys aren't gonna like this but if you want ao3 to be a neutral archive that will host anything that includes shit made with ai no matter how objectionable you find that

Ugh. I hate AI fics but you're RIGHT. Just like with everything else we don't like, we can still just. Not engage with it.

no. I disagree. ao3 is an archive of fan content. as in, created by fans. An AI is not a fan. it's not a person. it can't write or create. ao3 is an archive of transformative work and chatGPT cannot perform meaningful transformative work, it can only regurgitate slop.

and yes, as others have said, ao3 still does have certain limitations. You can't plagiarize - and AI is a plagiarism machine, you can't post 'iso' or 'placeholder' fics, etc. It can absolutely choose to say the content it hosts must be made by humans without censoring the acual content.

^^^^^

Except that Ao3 absolutely cannot choose to say the content it hosts must be made by humans without opening the door to the very censorship it was created to avoid.

Because there is no way to tell with 100% accuracy that a piece of writing was created by or with the aid of generative AI, and anything less than 100% accuracy is completely unacceptable, no nuance, no exceptions. You can tell with 100% accuracy if something is not a fanwork--like an ISO or placeholder post that does not contain a fanwork--and you can tell with 100% accuracy if a fanwork contains a link to a payment apparatus or is otherwise soliciting payment for fic in violation of the TOS, so these things can be disallowed and, when discovered and reported as violations, dealt with by PAC. And you can tell with 100% accuracy that a fic has been plagiarized, meaning that it has pulled entire passages word for word from another fic and this can therefore be detailed in a report in order for PAC to take action. (This is important to note because while generative AI is in fact The Plagiarism Machine, that can only be proven on the back end via the datasets used to train it. You can't actually look at generative output and tell which place the words were ripped from, because LLMs operate on statistical probabilities of word order, not actually pulling phrases wholesale from a specific work.)

But you cannot tell with 100% accuracy that a particular passage has been generated with AI.

And we are already seeing the problem with spurious AI accusations! People are claiming that 'excessive use of em-dashes' is a 'tell' for AI, when the only reason em-dashes exist in AI-generated output is because the machines were trained on human-generated writing that used them! (And as a writer who frequently ODs on em-dashes and italics, I find that particular 'tell' especially insulting. My overuse of em-dashes comes from my own brain, thank you very much.) So the only way to actually tell that someone on Ao3 is using AI to write their fic is if the admit as much up-front.

Guess what would happen if Ao3 decided to ban AI fics from the platform? Those fics would stop being tagged, and then we'd run into the exact same problems we had on FFN with fics being grudge-reported by bad faith actors, which was one of many reasons Ao3 was created in the first place--so that people couldn't do that.

Generative AI sucks and I think everyone who uses it to create fics is a loser, but I'd much rather be able to avoid them by excluding a tag or muting an author than have to worry about some asshole who hates me trying to get my fics deleted by reporting me to PAC for suspected AI use.

i love the tags by @silvysartfulness

There are hate spammers hitting newly published fics en masse with AI accusations and driving newbie writers away. This would get so, so much worse if it was validated by AO3.

Besides, think of the poor Abuse Team. They'd never be able to address any real issues.

It is crazy that “don’t be kind because you’ll be perceived as having ulterior motives” is infiltrating into so many facets of society. Don’t be kind because it might be perceived as flirting. Don’t be kind because it might be perceived as manipulation. Don’t be kind because it might be perceived as fake.

IM GONNA KEEP BEING EXTRA KIND I DONT CARE FUCK YOU

the “sexy lamp test” but for disabled folks: if you can replace your disabled character with a beloved pet dog that needs an expensive surgery to survive then you have to throw out your manuscript 

new idea