#ao3plz

[photoniccyclone]

These bots are getting more aggressive.

I mean first they only said they found Ai use. Then they advertised a website to “scan works” to be aware of “cheating authors” (Which by the way, please DO NOT, go to the website the bot advertises. I don’t know what’s on there but it’s probably either full of malware or it’s something that will feed *your* fic into an ai so it can use it for training). And now they’re finally directly calling me a cheater directly, they were doing it indirectly before. Interesting how they seem to be coming steadily more and more harsh in their comments.  Surely there is something Ao3 can do about this right? I mean it’s just getting ridiculous at this point. Maybe include a re-captcha for comments (I don’t know how effective those would be but it may be worth a shot) or allow authors to ban certain keywords from their comment section like youtube does. Just *something* so we can clean this comments up without manually having to aggressively moderate them or closing the fic to non-member commenters. I really want to avoid closing guest comments because a large amount of comments on my fics *are* from guests. Here’s to hoping this ends soon.