A pony of mystery in the darkness. Or I forgot to take the lens cap off. (They/them is fine.)
Hmm. April 24th was my fourth anniversary of my first time pub'ing fimfic to this site.
'Really makes a person think.' 
Judging a story contest can be really hard! Especially when we consider that different stories are good in different ways, in an 'apples vs. oranges' kind of problem.
Even so, results are finally available!
To read the results, you need to be logged in to your fimfiction.net account, and use the password:portal
Someone made this reasonable request in the official fimfiction.net discord server, #site-help-and-dev channel.
In related note, please like or dislike comments as apropriate below.
...even though the majority of chess stories I see in this world are NOT really my bag.
As I commented on gapty's latest chess story:
A fimfic user recently put out a call for experimental fics (using the term BROADLY.) They even said
Self promotions encouraged!
But what do people think an experimental fic is, anyway? What does that mean to them?
Most of my stories are experiments in how people might react to them...but that isn't really the stereotype that people apply that word to.
There's a long tradition of quips along the lines of
"Some people don't want to write, but want to have written, and to call themselves 'writers.'"
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They want the prestige, but aren't actually worthy of it.
EDIT: I am actively trying to normalize the use of "AI artist" to refer specifically to the AIs themselves, as it illustrates the objective problem with what the people who claim to be "AI artists" are doing.
They don't have the ability but don't want to put the time/effort into gaining it. That and a lack of imagination.
Well, they wouldn't be writers just like how I wouldn't be a programmer if I asked ChayGPT for code.
They just want fame, to be known for writing although they themselves don't do it. People like that are just despicable. You can't take credit for what you didn't do.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment: do you consider a musician who uses Auto-Tune/pitch correction for their studio stuff to be, well, a musician? Because nowadays that covers the large majority of new recorded music. I can remember the late 1990s when quite a few people wanted "Auto-Tune out of music!" or something like that. Did they win? Nope. I strongly suspect "AI out of art/writing!" will have the same result. I'm not especially happy about this (and to be clear, I am very much in favour of Fimfiction's "only stuff you wrote" rule) but I suspect that's where things are heading. "No AI in art, ever" is a lost cause already, guys. Sorry.
As such I think a realistic hope is that people should be honest. Going back to music, if you use a synth to sound so much like a real harp that 99% of people can't tell the difference, I don't have a problem with that. If you tell everyone it is a real harp when it isn't, I absolutely do have a problem. I've said before that I wonder whether "fully human-written story" will fill a similar niche in writing to what live gigs now do in music. Maybe not as technically perfect, but a more human experience.
And part of that may end up being the emergence of new terms to differentiate AI-assisted authors from the traditional sort. These terms will need to be neutral, not something obviously slanted like "fake writer" (and not a pro-AI term like "enhanced writer" either), and I don't think they exist yet. I reckon that in time they might do, though.