The Fanfic Sex Trope That Caught a Plundering AI Red-Handed
WiredThese days, so-called generative AI can make art, write books, and compose poetry. The Writers Guild of America is striking in part over the potential use of AI to write scripts, referring to such systems as “plagiarism machines.” Visual artists have penned open letters denouncing the use of AI to replace illustrators, calling it “the greatest art heist in history.” Getty sued Stability AI in January for copyright infringement. And what if, within that community, there was a specific sex trope that would inadvertently unmask how models like ChatGPT scrape the web—and how that scraping impacts the writers who created it. These stories are defined by a specific sexual hierarchy made up of Alphas, Betas, and Omegas in which Alphas and Omegas can smell one another in particular ways, experience “heats,” and mate for life. “It's almost like soulmates, but you choose it and then you get all these perks that go with it.” Because the Omegaverse has such specific terms and phrases associated with it, ones that are found within fan fiction and nowhere else, it’s an ideal way to test how generative AI systems are scraping the web.
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