143: @Pangram is this AI? (ft. Max Spero)

Have you guys been following the heated rivalry fanfiction drama?

Well, we should be.

Max, tell us about the heated rivalry fanfiction drama because I actually have not heard about this.

This is extremely relevant to WoW Truth.

I should have sent you guys this as pre-reading so we could spend more of the episode on it because I don't have the full context.

But essentially, there have been accusations thrown around that, you know, so-and-so popular heated rivalry fanfic is AI generated.

Yeah.

People feel like this is more so the case in this specific fandom, I think because it's new and maybe younger.

People don't fully understand the norms around fanfic.

But eventually somebody found out that if you copy-paste text from Claude directly into AO3, then the HTML tag that is just tagged with source clod will stick around.

It will be invisible in AO3, but if you inspect Element, you could see the clod tag.

So now people are going around and finding all of these popular fanfictions that are actually AI-generated, and they have the smoking gun proof, which is not actually pangram.

It's the clod HTML tag.

Stop, that's so funny.

This is so stupid.

There's no...

Oh my god.

Of all text to auto-generate, your heated rivalry fanfiction is a crazy one to be doing here.

Yeah.

It's like, who are you trying to trick? Like, who is this for? Is this for clout? Or did you just really want this for yourself and then put it out there for everyone else? Okay, so I

have seen people, like, post on AO3 with, like, this was made with AI and I made it for myself.

And, like, that to me is kind of like, I don't respect it, but at least you're, like, labeling it.

Like, fine.

Of course.

Okay, my only read on this, and this is based on years of fandom drama, of being ancillary to fandom drama, is that for a lot of people in fandom...