Article by TechCrunch: Writers on the fan fiction platform AO3 are increasingly locking access to their stories for non-registered users in order to avoid the crawlers of AI companies scrapping the text for training of their AI models.
Article by TechCrunch: Writers on the fan fiction platform AO3 are increasingly locking access to their stories for non-registered users in order to avoid the crawlers of AI companies scrapping the text for training of their AI models.
This is silly. It takes 5 minutes for an account creation bot to create an account and get to read the stories, and the author’s back at cero.
The true trick is to remember that companies are using fics as free labour to create sellable stuff and thus that stuff has to be SFA (Sanitized For Advertisers), and use that for your advantage: publishing smut, kink, furry and whatever else, and AIs won’t touch it.