Post 43 A Rant

 

Get ready to scroll. I am going to rant today.

Last night around 1:00 am, I was perusing Daredevil AO3 fanfics (as you do) and came across a horrific sight.

Someone used CHATGPT to WRITE FANFIC. 

I will admit, I used to think that people were being dramatic when they complained that ai art has no soul. Surely there is personal expression through the deliberate prompts the artist uses. I was very wrong.

Fanfiction, in my opinion, is one of the most pure and creative expressions of art. If people truly did have souls, fanfiction is the closest we will ever get to touching one. Don't believe me? Take a look at this playlist to the left. Some fan out there felt so seen by Daredevil's character that they made an almost five-hour playlist of songs that explore the character's psyche. Every song on that playlist is deliberate and has a personal meaning to the creator. 

In my experience, we love the characters that reflect the parts of ourselves we can't outwardly accept. They become manifestations of our loneliness, our desires, our unspoken fantasies. 

When a person writes fanfiction, no one expects it to be perfect. There is no need for perfection in passion. Part of the fun of reading fanfics is that you get the unedited voice of the writer. It's intimate. Reading the ai fanfic, I felt distanced from the author. Their identity was shielded behind the ai's tell-tale "it's not this - it's this". Instead of finding community, I was trapped with a fucking bot. 

As the world continues to spin and technology evolves, I hope people learn to find value in human imperfection.