Fearing AI, fan fiction writers lock their accounts
Fearing AI, fan fiction writers lock their accounts
Archive of Our Own writers are making their accounts private to prevent their fanfiction from being used to train 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 always seems so silly. As if their fanfic is going to make some significant change to the model or affect them in any way at all.
People reacting like this just seems like uneducated hysteria and drama. People so desperate to be victims they blow out of proportion things that don't even affect them.
This is really old news, if you want to go the opposite way and poison the AI then write omegaverse fics 😉
Oh, we are there already.
So, if AO3 wanted they could make a few new tags, let people post generated content specifically for training data scrapers but posted as if it’s authentic to help advance model collapse. It would potentially make these companies see AO3 as a poison pool, especially if users change up the tag about it often to keep the devs confused.
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.