The people refusing to use AI

[Silenia]

Oh, waarnemingen.nl, by any chance? I've been interested too in following and seeing how their analytic AI got better over the years. Even though errors today can still be obvious to humans. (Just recently ran a photo through the app and my obvious caterpillar came back as 76% bat. and just no...) Not unsurprising that they have humans check every AI-determined observation just to be sure.

waarneming.nl and its later international version observation.org, yup. (Active and/or lurking in various other places, too, but that's the one that claimed my insect was a grey whale. But yeah, I'm on-again, off-again present in a lot of the corners of the internet that deal with insects, ranging from reddit's r/whatsthisbug to waarneming.nl to English-language wikipedia to reading Nota Lepidopterologica articles )

 

[frimble3]

There is another writers' site I used to attend quite frequently. Now, not so much.

The reason? A number of new "forumites" didn't seem like real people at all. They seemed like AI bots and constantly asked the most banal and generic questions about writing craft and never responded to the answers of others. Just kept asking more banal generic questions.

As far as I'm concerned, the instant you abdicate your creativity to AI... you're no longer a writer. You are a parasite leeching off the work of others.

You're such a nice, trusting person. I don't assume that they are writing a novel. What if they're assembling those generic scrapings into a 'how to write fiction' book for the suckers to buy?
When dealing with strangers on-line, never doubt how low they could go.