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I’m pretty sure no one needs fan fic of my darker works. I mean, seriously… Fan fic of the published stuff? Sure. It’s kind of fluffy and mostly HEA. Fan fic of my short original stuff here? Only if you hate sleeping in the dark and don’t mind drinking a lot.

Yeah, but someone might write a fanfic of one of those stories to give them a less dark turn. I wrote a couple of nasty original stories called “Darla” and “Darla’s Dad,” and another writer asked me if she could write a third story that would give Darla a happier ending. I said yes, and she wrote a pretty decent sequel.

The differences between AI/copypasta and what you’ve described are creativity and imagination. An AI program will only operate according to its own rules. Creative people, by their very nature, go beyond the rules, but in a way that still makes sense, if you will. An AI can plagiarize a collection of historians writing about the War of the Roses and mash it up with plagarized Tolkien. It took a real person to write the book series A Song of Ice and Fire.

Given we’re on a website for posting fanfiction, I’d say somebody writing fanfic for your books would be a sign of success. Me… never got into writing until I had read/watched *ALL* the available material for that universe (at that time), yearned for more, and found fanfiction, wasn’t satisfied and began to write.

Oh that’s much less impressive so its not even AI its a copypaste machine.

Well, the, that makes it a bit easier. Cobblefic is plagiarism, and plagiarism is not permitted here.

So, I find myself writing a story that’s unusual in a couple of ways: It’s a fanfic of Disney’s new animated series, Kiff, only 6 episodes of which are currently available on Disney+. I usually wait until a show is farther into its run before I start writing fanfics about it. There’s no sex. Just lots of cuddling. Although it turns out there’s kind of an awful reason for the cuddling. Anyhoo, the story is called “The Snuggle Bug,” and I expect to post it some time this month.

We have a dedicated team of necromancers on stand-by, and they’re considerably better than Cersei’s crappy failed maester.

Um… is he remembering to renew his contract? We all know what happens to GoT characters when the actor forgets/declines to renew.

Nah, nah, took a night king to torment us with its warning about those who dare to resist him with a book that’ll never finish!

Totally get it. I would love to have some of the writers who I grew up watching their shows to be writing on my TV show. It’s coming from the same basic place but I know it’s just as ridiculous as hoping they would write fanfic. There’s one fandom I love, The 100, where I read that the creator of the original books the TV show was based on actually wrote it originally as fanfic of two characters from Gossip Girl after the apocalypse. She then rewrote it as an original story in book form.

Fair enough. I on the other hand would like to be asked first before anyone uses my original work in any way, including writing fan fic for it. Well, unless It was one of the authors whose work I read compulsively, but I’m pretty sure none of them even know I exist.

Yeah, I understand that concern for sure. I’ve thought about it in regards to humans doing it. I know some creators aren’t fans of fanfic of their work when written by a human being. I can imagine the same would be true of AI, but the problem with an AI is that you’re going to have no one to necessarily go after. But I’m not necessarily as concerned about fanfic of my original work. I would prefer to have my own version on TV, which is where my original work is intended to go, but I’d be okay with having someone make fanfic based on the TV show.

There’s discussion referenced in that article about the not insignificant concerns revolving around copyright violations and content attribution for the various AIs, and I have to say, those are my concerns as well. I shudder to think of some AI scraping one of my darker original pieces and creating some sort of fan fic around what I wrote, with no compensation to me as the creator. I reserve ALL rights to my original works, and I’m really not joking about that. I wouldn’t be the first author to spin a short work into a novel, and I have no intentions of winding up in a legal wrangle with someone who used an AI program that lifted my work, and who has decided they now OWN my work.

My (admittedly limited) experience to date suggests that AI writing programs don't actually write anything: They grab pieces of text from various sources and meld them together into one. If that's how all AI writing programs work, than any text they "write" will necessarily be plagiarized.

Oh, trust me, the spamming part will get them banned. Fast.

Technology is certainly progressing faster rate now than it did. I think if nothing else there should be a discussion to the powers that be if only to prevent someone from spamming ai-gen stories. Only cause I know at least someone will do that.