YABookgate

[Kari Kamiya]

Not to mention she's a Homestuck fan. I suppose that explains why the book turned out so fucking retarded.

Isn't there another author showcased years ago in this thread who was also a Homestuck fan? I think it was the chick with the severe fivehead, or whoever was deep into "cottagecore".

EDIT: Oh shit, she was talked about before. I thought she was married to a Finnish/Norwegian woman, unless I'm thinking of someone else, or the wife pooned out.

 

[Hirbowedge]

To the surprise of every single body in this thread I presume, literary prizes are dogshit, and winners lack all merit.

What makes me say that at this current instance?
The winner of an annual award presented by the Commonwealth Foundation is AI slop!

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Here is the face of our man of the hour. I don't know if his photographer didn't know when to stop when it comes to filters and photoshop smoothing, but the avatar almost looks AI as well.


I am going to be quoting a lot from this article, which is quite good.

Image from the article


The decent chunks of the story is apparently composed of snippets of fanfiction entries:

• For instance, if you read the sentence “but a belly sound, as if the earth swallows a shout and holds it there,” it seems rather jarring. Not really what you find in good writing, is it? Don’t worry, this was drawn from a fan-fiction webpage, The Fall of a Phoenix. (Sorry, the story is removed now, but the sentence was: “He swallows a shout of pain, breathing heavily, his whole body trembling.”)
• I was intrigued by the very purple sentence ending in a typical ChatGPT rule of three (x, y, z). Here, “damp earth, woodsmoke and the sour tang of fermenting cocoa” seems hyperspecific and very rare. Turns out it’s also drawn from an AO3 webpage. The sentence being: “She smelled cooking and the sour tang of fermenting grain.”
• Consider the sentence “His eyes narrowed against the glare outside and the darker glare inside him.” Here, “eyes narrowed against the glare outside” sounds a bit vain and ominous in a way that’s unnecessary. Well, that’s because it’s drawn from jedifiction.com (that’s defunct now), but also a random horror blog (the sentence being: “His eyes narrowed against the glare of the halogen strip lights”), and “the darker glare” is pulled from another fan-fiction story Poison.

Fun fact, a decent chunk of the training data for the earliest iterations of LLMs used just scraped fanfiction.

 

[Three Gorillion Dollars]

Kinda interesting that the more prominent usage of AI text has been from PoC who may or may not exist. I think Mia Ballard (Shy Girl) was similar where her online presence was minimal, her images were very filter-looking, and there was another Mia Ballard who also wrote in the genre which makes one wonder if Shy Girl Ballard took the name to make things difficult to figure out. What's publishing going to do? Critique a PoC or stand up against AI writing?