Fanfic authors are pulling their works and here's why

[afeelingunacted]

And it's live! For @WIRED, I wrote about the illegal fanbindings have led to some writers to delete their works recently-and how that connects to the current pull-to-publish wave and the ever-broadening, increasingly contextless sphere of fic readers: https://t.co/qEFk1jspFo
- Elizabeth Minkel (@elizabethminkel) February 28, 2024

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[waffletaco]

speaking of, chatGPT and such are great fanfic writers.

I just put in a simple prompt, and i get instant story.
In one case, the chatgpt assumed 2 characters who aren't canonically gay were made gay (with no prompt by me), so it justified my head canon.

[alwayspolaris]

I would discourage the use of ChatGPT, especially for this purpose - the reason it seems to write fanfiction so well is because it stole a bunch of authors's writing, especially fanfiction which is generally public. This would be fine if no one was making money off of it, but these big companies are and are cutting real jobs for creatives.

[waffletaco]

eh, i dont make a habit of doing it, or really read fanfic in general anymore.

I just wanted a specific scenario dreamed up for a fanfic that doesn't exist.

[alwayspolaris]

It's not a crime or anything I just wouldn't give them the ad revenue if you can avoid it. There are a lot of communities for getting your specific scenarios written up if that was something you were still looking for.

[waffletaco]

there doesn't appear to be any ads when using chatgpt, or CoPilots (microsofts Bing itulization of it).

But anyway, like i said, im not sitting here asking for fanfics. I've used it to answer questions or help punch up my resume/cover letters (excellent tool for that, btw).

[squirrels_oh_no]

There is another great opportunity there - write it yourself! Really, it's a fun thing to do, and you never know, Hollywood may come knocking.

[waffletaco]

lol no.
I just wanted my thoughts of a happy ending for Paladin Danse and Eleder Maxson form Fallout 4 conveyed in a brief word form.

[eowyn]

All this.

[benihime99]

Seconding the comment above

[kary1591]

I tried this before and it kept telling me it wasn’t able to do that for me. Has it evolved or did I just suck at giving it a prompt?

[waffletaco]

Ok, so i've messed with chatgpt and CoPilot (microsoft bing) (which i think has an option to use ChatGPT or Microsofts own AI? I forget

[waffletaco]

the reactions to this are lolzy 😭

[benihime99]

I mean, chatgpt is unethical, and an environnemental disaster
So you should expect reactions to openly admitting using it

[waffletaco]

ok :)