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Firstly, I've always enjoyed your works and I appreciate you being transparent about this truly controversial topic.

My two cents on this topic.

People have been using fossil fuels all their lives because they were told those were the only ones available and affordable, to a point where now, the world economy is completely reliant on those environment-destroying fuels.

But now, we are getting warned, by really intelligent, wise and worried voices,  about a future in which we allow AI to completely take over the arts and every single field , activity, job  and finally  aspect that makes us human, and we are on the verge of this becoming  an irreversible path unless we take action now.

It starts like this, "oh everyone is using AI to improve their craft, why shouldn't I"?
And then it's too late to quit and you are unable to do something that once made you happy without the help of some LLM. An LLM that, by the way, has been trained on pirated books and works of real authors.

Again I truly appreciate your honesty, and I don't think that using AI as a pseudo-editor is the same as asking it to write everything for you or to come up with ideas... but... some of us might eventually wonder who's actually writing the story we've been enjoying for so long. Is it an actual human being, capable of experiencing the emotions he's trying to convey in his FVN, or a piece of code developed by a heartless corporation?

IMHO, and this is MY opinion which might, of course, not reflect how other readers feel about it. I'd be really disappointed finding out that the ideas are coming from AI and not you.

Edit: Sorry about the grammar and the weird style, English isn't my first language.

Your reply is perfectly valid. Like I mentioned in my entry, I also can't know if someone wrote something or if an AI did it for them. I have already started wondering what is AI and what isn't in some of the new things I've recently read. At this point it's a huge mess. 

But I also don't think the comparison fits with the fossil fuels. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of AI in terms of the generative "art" it creates, but some of the benefits of AI are also undeniable. A lot of people are improving themselves because AI can help them do that.

The thing about reaching a turning point is that I think we have already passed it. More and more people are being replaced by AIs regardless of what one furry like me with an obscure visual novel does or says. It's at the scale of the industrial revolution now and we're spectators to all of this unfolding.

As for who wrote the story in my case, that's always going to be me. I can't possibly let someone else do that. Where's the fun in it then?

However, your concern with the authenticity of my work is more than valid as well. But in that case, can anyone even be trusted anymore? I wanted to tackle this subject openly and publicly, but others might not even imagine to do so for fear of being witch-hunted. 

Sooner or later though this is going to be something that needs to be talked about in our fandom. It's also obvious that there will be people on both sides of the fence, but I hope we're also all mature enough to have a logical and friendly discussion about this.