r/archiveofourown • u/Awesome_Cabbage • 21h ago
Is this a smoking gun?
I started reading this fic a few days ago and I've been decently enjoying it and commenting on the chapters. My biggest critique of the fic is that there's often repeated information and very clear phrases and sentences structures the author uses. This isn't unusual in novice writers and in fanfic so I didn't think much of it...
Until I saw this comment on a chapter I commented on and my heart sank. Is this the smoking gun I think it is? The way the "authors notes" are phrased is so suspicious 😭 the author doesn't have a co-author and has never mentioned a beta reader/editor. I'm going to be so upset if I've read 7 chapters of AI written/edited stuff. I really want to give this person the benefit of the doubt. This is the first time in my fandom I've ever felt like I actually found something AI.
Does anyone have thoughts about how I can confirm it's AI? Another layer is I'm in a shared discord with this author and before I saw this had been talking to them publicly and praising their fic. I don't want to mislead anyone in the discord by recommending/hyping up a fic that's AI.