Okay, this is new

[aadler]

At Archive of Our Own, I had a comment left on my newest post, “Snapshots 04”:

Ćomment #9h59Nu ́ChatGPT ́use in this work has beén det́ected. Readers,́ uśe AI detector tools liké gowinston ́to call out dishonest cheat́ing authors.

(Yes, the weird little accent marks were part of the message.)

My initial thought was that this was a random error. I answered the first one (saying it was bullshit, I don’t even know how to sign into ChatGPT), and then got another, with extra accusation thrown in:

Comment #8ktuU49́d́4X Ścan using AI ́detection algorithm has detected ́t́h́iś wórk ás génerated by ChatGPT. Use án AI détector like gowinston to find íf the author is ćheating wit́h AI. Report this ÁI cheat́inǵ author for AI use.

I promptly deleted both messages, including my previous reply, because 1) it isn’t true, and 2) it annoys me. No guarantee, of course, that I won’t get more of the same; if so, I’ll delete them as well.

There’s nothing to make me stand out as a target of choice, so I suspect we’re seeing the advent of some new form of harassment … or maybe just spam, trying to hawk this “gowinston”, whatever that might be. If you write and post fanfic, be aware the same thing could happen to you.