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dimiclaudeblaigan · 2 years ago

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Just as a heads up, I’m locking all my fics on AO3 to registered users only due to the Elongated Moosk incident and his scummy fanfic thieving bot. I know some people read fics without an account there and I’m sorry to anyone who doesn’t have an account. If you want to get one, it’s super simple but there’s a queue you have to wait in so you’ll have to wait a couple/few days or so to get your invite emailed to you by their staff.

I’d like to take them off private at some point since I really do not prefer having them locked to registered users, and hopefully the AO3 staff can do something about this (they’ve been informed about it), but I don’t feel like having my hobby’s work stolen by stupid, shameless straight rich white men’s AI bots.

Also, they’re planning to profit off their fic theft, so... yeah.

#DCB Comments #for the record there's really nothing we as individuals can do about it if they steal our fics which is why #people are putting their fics on private. only companies can do anything legal abt it #that meaning if characters of copyrighted works show up in stories written by this AI #the companies can sue because the AI is getting the ppl behind this actual profit for using it #so they're essentially taking existing copyrighted material with no credit and making money off other companies' creations #typically when you profit off a company's work they get a share of the money and there are contracts and yadda yadda for all that #but obviously they're being sneaky about this and using fanfics to get money bc they don't have it pay us for it #so they don't have to share any of the profit with us for our writing. this also means ANY original works you may have up #can and will probably be stolen by these AIs. it's the same thing as with art being stolen #it's being taken without permission and used for generating income while not crediting anyone and claiming it as ''the AI's work''#so yeah... I really do recommend /all/ of you private /all/ of your works #otherwise you risk your works being scrapped up by this shit AI so the richest piece of shit in the world can profit off your hobby #that mind you you uploaded to a... non-profit website that runs solely on donations and doesn't run ads for revenue #yes that's how scummy these fuckers are. profiting off works put up on a totally non-profit website

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