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Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them 🍉 retweeted
Честно говоря, количество вскрывшихся гнойников в отношении к фикрайтерам понемногу приводит меня к неожиданному дзену. Я-то думала, что я теряю реальную возможность общения с другими людьми через свои тексты, теряю что-то человеческое и ценное. А я вообще ничего не теряю.
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them 🍉 retweeted
truly and unequivocally we’re all just living through this meme lmaooooooo
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them 🍉 retweeted
77k links, of which 1.7k are google docs, 12.8k are drive folders, and the rest are epubs. For the docs and drive folders, the uploaders email IDs are visible, many with what appears to be their real names. I'm sure many people are unaware their data has been compromised.
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them 🍉 retweeted
i agree that there's definitely a repository of ai scraped data somewhere at the very least. but i believe a huge reason all these sites are popping up NOW is bc they're seeing the 'need' as these drive links are getting massive viewership, likes, saves.
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them 🍉 retweeted
People charging money for the work you did for free for fans, and these fans themselves collating google drives against your will, practically handing it over to these bad actors, and calling you selfish and entitled when you ask them not to repost your work on google drive...
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them 🍉 retweeted
not to be a dick but this is VERBATIM what hoardes of fic writers say when anything (usually untargeted writing advice) makes them feel insecure about their writing. it sucks but we are the architects of this mindset. stop doing this. writing's hard. take pride in your shit.
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them 🍉 retweeted
day 5 of no ao3
there are at least 4 different ao3 clones made by AI with scraped data; people are compiling lists of authors who don't want their works to be published outside of ao3 to block them after; somebody had just called writers greedy capitalists again
it's tuesday
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them 🍉 retweeted
English/Spanish posts: Writers are petite bourgeois stealing from IP owners
Chinese posts: I am grateful to farmers who put food on my table, and labourers for maintaining the infrastructure, and cleaners for keeping the streets tidy, and writers who bring me enjoyment for free
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them 🍉 retweeted
Ok so we have:
-Google drive discourse
-Fic writers considering deleting fics once ao3 is back
-A scam website legit stealing personal ao3 user info, using a shit ton of ai and profiting off of it
And it hasnt even been 5 days...
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them 🍉 retweeted
In all of this, I really love the Chinese side of Twitter who have been so outspoken. It seems most are largely in agreement that the entitled readers and their demanding attitudes are in the wrong for how they're treating writers
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them 🍉 retweeted
In light of recent ao3 related events, I have stumbled upon a website that I think authors need to be made aware of.
The website ao3 [DOT] life has been scraping and downloading fics published to ao3 for who knows how long. 🧵
Honourable Goober the Ween || they/them 🍉 retweeted
this thread is not about food.
you spend hours preparing for a potluck. researching recipes, buying ingredients, cooking food, transferring it to serving dishes— and maybe even setting out a little notecard with a list of known allergens.
