Hoosier Poet

Corvin? NO!

Folks, I have been (VERY) slowly writing a wee book, with the plan of dropping it on my blog for any and all to read piece by piece.
As I write, I use Google Docs.
While writing, I sought a strong name for one of my Characters that was popular for the area I am writing.
Corvin.
I say that to say this.
In the past two weeks, I have heard the name used in no less than four...FOUR... AI sci-fi Slop stories. You know AI Slop stories, right? Stories that are SUPPOSED to have been written by the author, but you slowly and surely realize is AI generated?
I've not got money to throw around (yet) so I use Google Docs for my writing in progress, and lately I've been informed that Google Docs lets AI scan to improve its own writing.
So ultimately, I can't help but Wonder if by my posting on my blog has opened my stories up and my poetry up for free review by AI or, if the rumors of Google Docs allowing AI to scan with abandon the works contained within it by unsuspecting authors are true...
I admit that I have used an AI music generator to put music to my own poems to turn them into songs as I do not know how to play an instrument yet and I'm 50/50 certain that people's ears would bleed if they heard me sing. But I've posted those songs with the note that it was a tune generated to go with my song/poem, and have never tried to pass it off otherwise.
Folks, I deplore the idea of stories and novels being generated solely with AI with mere prompts and no human creativity involved whatsoever. (Or the only human creativity involved being that which is 'stolen' via scanning or copy and pasting).
The fact that these stories are being offered up by so-called authors who hide the fact that they are using AI and an attempt merely to make money is a shameful and contemptible fact. These self described so-called "authors" would rather dilute and pollute the zeitgeist with AI slop in order to make a fast dime without regard for the detrimental impact that it has on human Poetry and Prose, and once discovered, they should be ostracized from any platform they attempt to use.
I have absolutely no problem with people using AI for what it is: a tool. Using AI for editing purposes grammatical clarity or even bouncing ideas off of to fix plot points that they just can't quite get through, I cannot argue with them at all for this purpose. But for them to use AI to generate an entire poem short story novella or novel to pass off as their own should be in its own right considered a crime against humanity or at least a crime against human creativity in its most vile form.
So, I do not know if my work as labored as it is with my tight schedule, is being scanned by AI by Google, or some one is using my free posts as their own copy and past bin, but the idea that anything that I create being used to further these lazy and pathetic crimes against the intellect is sickening as it is disgraceful.
Of course who knows? Maybe I am just being paranoid and Corvin is a more popular name than I could have imagined when I plucked it from the records...
... but in the event that what I feel has happened is accurate, I am nauseated. And I will need to seek a new process in which to write to keep it from being used to generate AI slop from either Corporation or individual greed. I appreciate everyone who reads my work as lame as it may be and as labored as it may be in the time constraints that I have had lately. It is my intent to double down on my time schedule and daily organization in order to write more consistently and finish more work in general.
I hope that my work reaches those who genuinely like to read ACTUAL human created content, and is successfully veiled from the Bots and the AI bottom feeders who prey on us all.
I know I don't have a huge fan base, and so this message may just be its own intellectual scream into the void...yet scream I shall.
And the few of you who do read my poetry, my stories, and reach out to me: Thank you for actually doing so.

Humanity will prevail.