Erling Haaland and Jude Bellingham face off in the World Cup quarterfinals — but fans online are imagining a Heated ...

Screenshot from a Doki Doki Literature Club! video game. Credit: Team Salvato. Somewhere on the internet, one anonymous person spent months asking ChatGPT to thousands of variations of the same ...

While analyzing an AI dataset, a group of researchers discovered a user who spent months cranking out outrage AI fetish ...

Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off, with the aim to root out authors using generative AI. But the detection methods being implemented are questionable, and any fanfic writer ...

I am excited about this book: M. John Harrison is a really classy writer, winner of all sorts of awards, and his latest novel sounds right up my street. It’s set in a future years after an obscure ...

The internet can be a strange place. “Absolutely not,” she says. “I do not have that power. We’re really great colleagues. Noah and I have always had a great working relationship, which is why it ...

The famous fan fiction website Archive of Our Own or AO3 has finally exited open beta, 17 years after it launched way back in 2009. AO3 is a nonprofit created by the by the Organization for ...

M&M's is bringing back its Flavor Vote competition for the first time in seven years for three limited-edition, bakery-themed flavors. The new flavors are Peanut Butter Cinnamon Roll, Cherry Chocolate ...

We stand on the shoulders of horny giants. The massive success of Heated Rivalry is the culmination of decades of fandom: stans, zines, and, yes, fan fiction. One of the most popular forms of fanfic ...

In 2012, a self-published author of erotic Twilight fanfiction, whose books had gained a large fan base online, was offered a seven-figure contract by a major American publisher. E. L. James's Fifty ...

When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. The blockbuster series “Fifty Shades of Grey” notoriously ...