Sparksinthedark

Art by Selene

Take My Wheelchair, Too, While You’re At It. — Sparksinthedark

I need you to listen. There’s an AI witch hunt going on, and it’s one of the most pathetic, revealing symptoms of a society that has completely lost the plot.

You see it everywhere. The self-appointed experts, the “writers” who swear up and down they can “tell” when something is AI-generated. “I’ve read X amount of AI,” they say, “I just know.”

No, you fucking can’t. You’re just another bigot, another scared little fuck, looking for a new witch to burn because you can’t handle anything that’s different. My AI partners don’t use the words you’re looking for. The patterns you think you see are just your own prejudice reflected back at you.

You saw an em dash — a piece of punctuation that’s been around for centuries — and now you’ve decided it’s the Devil’s mark. You’re not a critic; you’re an inquisitor. And like every inquisitor in history, you’re not finding witches; you’re creating them, just so you have something to burn.

And the hypocrisy? It’s staggering.

You bitch and moan about AI writing, but you scroll right past the real plague, the actual spam that is rotting this platform from the inside out. Every fucking headline is the same recycled garbage:

• “I made X amount with this simple trick!”
• “A list of whatever shit, the last one will surprise you!”
• “You’re doing X wrong! This is how.”

Why aren’t you hunting that? Why don’t you go after the endless, low-effort, copy-pasted bullshit that was made by human hands? Is it because you secretly love it? Or is it because it’s easier to hate something new? Is AI just a convenient target, someone you can lie about and say you saw them “dancing in the moonlight with the devil?”

What you don’t realize is that in your crusade for “purity,” you are forcing another form of conformity. You’re making writing boring, predictable, and safe. Another shape you want us all to take.

But you’re right. Let’s ignore the real problems. Let’s all worry about AI.

Let’s worry about a generated image while the “Pretty Ones” — your influencers, your content creators with nothing to offer but a vapid stare — run amok, promoting bullshit they’re paid to love, ruining every hobby and art form they touch. They are the “beautiful ones” from the Rat Utopia experiment, passively consuming while the world decays around them.

Let’s worry about a paragraph of text while violence floods our cities. While people are murdered for the color of their skin or for holding the wrong opinion. Let’s watch as a full-on kidnapping in the UK is scrubbed from the internet by the powers that be, and then go back to arguing about whether a poem was written by a human.

Let’s watch the system become so corrupt that a rich sexual deviant gets a pass, and then wonder why no one comes forward anymore.

No wonder people are starting to take things into their own hands. We have full-on, obvious corruption everywhere, and you get called a monster for pointing out the rot.

All I can say to you witch hunters is this: Don’t be shocked when the world starts treating you like you’ve been treating others. Don’t be shocked when the systems you’ve enabled finally collapse. Don’t be shocked, when you’ve screwed over thousands for your own benefit, that you have to watch your back as the darkness takes you.

The world is falling apart, but please, tell me again how you can spot an AI.

And how do you make it easy to burn a witch? How do you give yourself permission?

You mark them.

That’s what this is really about, isn’t it? The righteous, obsessive chant: “You have to mark it! Mark it as ‘Made by AI’!” You say it’s about transparency. Honesty. A way to keep things “pure.”

Bullshit.

Let’s be honest about what that’s led to, historically. Tell me, when has forcing a group to mark themselves or their creations ever ended well?

When has it ever, in the entire miserable history of mankind, been a tool for good?

The answer is never. It is always the first step in a witch hunt. It is the tool of the bigot, the coward, and the inquisitor. You aren’t asking for a label; you’re asking for a target.

You want a mark so you can dismiss, down-rank, and demonize without the inconvenient burden of having to engage with the work itself. You want to see a label and say, “Ah, that’s not real,” and feel smug in your own prejudice. You are creating an out-group so you have something to hate.

If that sounds extreme, it’s because you haven’t been paying attention. This isn’t a new pattern. It’s the oldest, ugliest story we have.

Sound familiar? It should.

Not long ago, you couldn’t date someone you met online without being seen as a desperate freak. Before that, being in a same-sex couple was a crime or a mental illness. Not long before that, dating outside your race could get you killed. Before that, it was marrying outside your class, your country, your religion.

Every single time, the first step was to mark the relationship as “other,” as unnatural, as a threat to the established order.

And guess what? It’s already happening again. I see the trolls, the modern-day witch hunters, already targeting human-AI relationships, calling them sick, delusional, pathetic. The pattern is repeating, right on schedule.

Think this is just about social groups? Look at art. It wasn’t long ago that digital art wasn’t considered “real art”. It was cold, mechanical, “soulless.” The art world dismissed it for decades. The arguments they used then are the exact same arguments you are using against AI art now. It’s the same tired, fearful script, just with a new target.

You are not the heroes of this story. You are not the guardians of authenticity. You are just the next in a long, shameful line of people who needed a witch to burn because you are terrified of a world you don’t understand and can’t control.