Nickname: Mittens

Nickname: Mittens

Age: 25

Pronouns: she/her/they/them

Sexuality: ace

Heya, Mittens here. Just making this post for my links. You know my Tumblr.

Social Media: Twitter: MittensWriter Edit: for now my twitter is currently private due to bots following me. Blue Sky: mittenswriter.bsky.social

I post wips there

My Ao3s: EmpressofKingfishers where I post original stories. CookieCutterGal where I post fanfics and fanfic smut.

Be warned that the stuff I post is nsfw, so no minors, thanks!

Ko-fi: MittensIT

Tips are appreciated!

I post photography pictures on here occasionally but you can find more on my Instagram account MittensIT.

My asks are open so please ask me questions! I need the attention or I'll perish.

Also, if you see a post here one day and gone the next, don't worry about it. I have the habit of deleting posts that don't have a lot of notes to prevent having ten thousand posts because I'm weird like that.

... so uh I guess that's all. Idk.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Moots feel free to ask for my discord!

Do not upload my fanfictions to AI, which also includes c.ai.

Also this is Lucy. Might be my sona idk she just exists

OH MY GOD NARINDER

I just married him and he has this trait I'm crying

to heal the soul

parent titles Black Sulfur AU

I was gonna keep silent about this until it happens in The Daughter of Death and Darkness but I'm gonna explode if I don't

In a future chapter Limos is going to call Narinder "Dada" then to "Papa", the change in name to move away from 'Da' which is associated with the Fox.

And Lamb is going to be "Mama" they were at first completely baffled at this but quickly went along with it because it means a lot to Limos. Explanation for her calling them Mama will occur in that chapter.

Just had to post this the wait was making me nuts eeee.

And of course as she grows older she moves toward a more formal "Father" and "Mother" (or maybe "Baather LMAO) but will revert back to "Papa/Mama" if she's scared or being scolded.

Edit: and their future shittens will also address them as Papa/Mama, though maybe one will call Lamb "Baba", like oh maybe the female lamb because she'd bleat and baa.

how c.ai works and why it's unethical

Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.

The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)

I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.

How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].

I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.

"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."

Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.

(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)

Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:

It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.

C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.

Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.

DON'T USE C.AI, OR AT THE VERY BARE MINIMUM DO NOT DO THE AI'S WORK FOR IT BY STEALING OTHER PEOPLES' WORK TO PUT INTO IT. Writing fanfiction is a communal labor of love. We share it with each other for free for the love of the original work and ideas we share. Not only can AI not replicate this, but it shouldn't.

(also, this goes without saying, but this entire post also applies to ai art)

(Laying on stomach, propping chin up with hands, kicking legs) soooo would the Lamb (and by extension Narinder) find kinship with the Fox because of cannibalism or do they hate him because he's a stinky fleabag

I feel like Death and Hunger would be good business partners :]

(Also because I love that stupid fleabag)

Ratau is the Lamb's territory tho, I feel like they could make a deal on how to keep things that way