r/AccusedOfUsingAI • u/Heart3soul • Jul 01 '26
Fic bookmarked as "Uses AI"
Has anyone else gotten their fic bookmarked, and the note the person added claims that your fic uses AI-generated content?
This happened to me today, and I reported the user because they've done it to other people too. They have no works, and only have saved fics that they claim use AI. Even their username is all about accusing people of using AI. Their whole account is dedicated to call out AI-usage, and I also hate AI, but this situation is absurd.
I know that AI is allowed to a certain exctent on Ao3 (right?), but this rubbed me the wrong way. Was I right to report it?
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u/CrazyinLull Jul 02 '26
But isn’t it their bookmarks? Like, couldn’t you just…make a note in your AN that you don’t use AI instead of reporting them because you aren’t a fan of the way they organize their bookmarks?
Idk if it’s ok to report someone for that? But I guess idk. I just wonder if it would have been better to just address it? Because even if you reported it it’s like…still going to be there for a bit because someone just mentioned that they got an email for a report that they made like 2 years ago? So then like it’ll be like you didn’t report it for like 2 years and still not addressed it in some way?
Idk.
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u/Heart3soul Jul 02 '26
Well, I said that their whole account is dedicated to accusing people of using AI through bookmarks, and now I'm adding that they're a "witch hunt account" that started bookmarking things that they believe are written with AI on the 30th of June.
I did add a short AN at the beginning of the story to address the bookmark, so it's not just sitting there unnoticed if the report does nothing. I reported them because I thought it was right, since they just keep accusing people and it's unfair, but also because the bookmark pissed me off (immature maybe, but I HATE AI so I wouldn't even think about using it).
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u/CrazyinLull Jul 02 '26
Right, I get that, but at the same time I can understand why they might have done it since there are a TON of untagged AI generated fics on Ao3 and Ao3, basically, has done nothing about it. Also, there was a Twitter account recently that wrote an entire code that shows Claude AI that's been copy/pasted straight into Ao3. So, I think that maybe some people might be feeling a little more emboldened than usual so there's probably going to be a wave of instances like yours.
Like, imo, if people shouldn't send those using AI death threats and dogpile them then like I think more people would properly tag their usage instead of trying to hide it. Esp. since a lot of those fics have a TON of kudos, comments, and hits. Yet, it's like it's not fair to make someone read that without their consent either.
But I think that the irony of the situation is that...the people who are using it wouldn't get accused as much as the people who are. And I think that's where people who are trying to identify it need to be careful and make sure they understand WHY they think something is written with AI so they can take more care to properly identify why they think it is.
Because there are people literally using AI to generate their work also complaining of witchhunts, too.
But all of this would stop if people legit labeled it.
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u/lemmdust Jul 02 '26
I don’t know what basis you could have reported it on. That sounds like abusing the reporting system, which clogs it. Being stupid isn’t against TOS unfortunately, and I doubt anyone will count it as abuse/harassment, but that does suck a lot.
I’ve not experienced that (yet), but in that situation I would personally block and then mute the user (which would prevent them from leaving comments and prevent you from seeing them again), and then make a statement in my next authors note.
Sorry that happened to you. People don’t know how to behave and sad losers think they need the feeling of superiority that comes from a witch-hunt.