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AO3 Data Scraped for AI Training Dataset

What is happening, and what you can do. Check for potential edits with additions at the end of the post!

What is happening? What do we know?

A user going by "nyuuzyou" on the HuggingFace platform uploaded a dataset a few days ago - containing scraped content from AO3. HuggingFace is a very popular platform and widely used for sharing machine learning and AI models/datasets. The scraped dataset includes fics, fanart, and other fanworks - all taken without permission and intended for use in training gen AI models. You can find more information in this Reddit post.

This dataset is one of several compiled from various websites—at least seven in total. While two datasets have been removed, the AO3 one was only disabled on HuggingFace. This means that it’s not downloadable at the moment but still visible. It may also return if takedown efforts end up being challenged/reversed by that user.

Key Details

Scope: On AO3, all content with work IDs between 1 and 63,200,000 has been targeted. The work ID is the number at the end of a work's URL — for example, in https://archiveofourown.org/works/12345678, 12345678 is the work ID. You can find it by simply opening the work and checking the URL in your browser’s address bar. So, if your work falls in that range and is publicly accessible (i.e., not locked and open to everyone, including guests), it’s mostly likely included in the dataset. This dataset is currently disabled on HuggingFace, but that doesn't mean it's gone. It's only a temporary takedown as of now.

Takedown notices have been issued, but this user has also uploaded the dataset to other sites after backlash and partial removal.

There are talks in the discussion forums of potentially moving this dataset to Telegram, torrents, and/or other private channels.

HuggingFace AO3 dataset page

Other distributed sites listed here (as per a Reddit comment)

Currently deleted from ModelScope

What can you do?

Should the dataset return again and you see that your work was affected: file your own DMCA or copyright takedown notice. The uploader, in their own words, "has not agreed to take down the entire repo. At this time, the scraper has agreed with taking down art from the person who owns the copyright. That means each of you will need to request a takedown."

Instructions and a sample CSV template to list your work IDs for removal are provided in this guide. You can find more details in this announcement by PaperDemon.

Lock your works! It would limit visibility to registered users only, and is a very good step to prevent scraping or unauthorized use. To lock all your works on AO3, go to “My Works,” click “Edit Works,” and select all. Then click “Edit” and check the box labeled “Only show to registered users.” Scroll down and click “Update All Works” to apply the change.

⚠️ | Final Notes:

This user has so far shown no signs of stopping and is continuing to redistribute the data across multiple sites, even after numerous takedown requests (read more here). So, we can only recommend to be cautious and beware, lock your works, feel free to make use of takedown notices if you're unfortunately affected, and spread the word to fellow creators.

Follow up on this and get the latest updated in the Fanfic Communities Network (FCN) Discord Server!

If you have more information regarding this - e.g. if works from other sites are affected too - please reach out to us in the FCN!!

Edit (2025-04-26):

The user who has scraped the works has, upon request by another person, posted a way to convert ao3 json to markdown:

https://huggingface.co/datasets/nyuuzyou/archiveofourown/discussions/170

https://gist.github.com/nyuuzyou/b2f83669ad80a22e435728245ebcdf9f

This shows us that nyuuzyou continues to show no signs of taking down the scraped works.

Edit (2025-04-28):

A user warned that even archive-locked AO3 fics were included in a scraped dataset (most likely taken while the scraper was logged in, before they were banned or switched to public-only access). Some public works were missed as well:

https://huggingface.co/datasets/nyuuzyou/archiveofourown/discussions/213#680fcdb76d9e022324a70cf1

Edit (2025-05-03):

Hey everybody, this is a bit late, but the AO3 dataset has been permanently removed from HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nyuuzyou/archiveofourown. While this unfortunately doesn’t prevent it from being shared elsewhere (like torrents) nor does it guarantee any deletion of past downloads and whatnot, having it taken down from a major platform like HF is still a significant step forward. (There is more info about other sites on PaperDemon.)

So please don’t be disheartened—every action counts, and this shows that pushing back and filing DMCAs and copyright notices as appropriate does make a difference. We’ll certainly keep an eye out for more info and post updates here, but thank you again to everyone who helped report, spread the word, or supported the effort. Keep reading, keep writing. ♥️

[character-a-character-b]

Awards: Winds of Change

Here are the awards for the "Winds of Change” flash fest. This is the biggest flash fest we have had so far, with 12 submissions!

I am sorry for the delay in posting the awards. The last couple of days have been busy as I, @stars-forever, try to study for my finals.

Information about this Flash Fest can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/character-a-character-b/781449320544288768/winds-of-change-flash-fest?source=share

The awards for the "Winds of Change" flash fest go to:

The Shifting Skies Award goes to @ReesieReads for "Perception" and @sunflower1me for "Dreamchaser"!

The Rooted in Change Award goes to @EvilToTheCore13 for "Is This Annihilation, Or Metamorphosis?"!

The Whispers on the Wind Award goes to @RynRose4 for "Here to stay"!

The Evolving Echoes Award goes to @MimiHylea for "A Path to Honor"!

The New Horizons Award goes to @EvilToTheCore13 for "Is This Annihilation, Or Metamorphosis?" and @the-sparkling-diamond-satine for "all of me is reeling, shed that sinking feeling (now i’m never letting you go)"!

The Sudden Shift Award goes to @thespyfromconnecticut "The Only Constant"!

The Winds of Change Award goes to @sunflower1me for "Dreamchaser"!

15 different fandoms were represented: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Chuck (TV), Endeavour (TV), Glee (TV 2009), Inspector Morse (TV), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Moulin Rouge!: The Musical - Various/Logan, NCIS: Sydney, Persona Series, Persona 2, Savvy Series - Ingrid Law, Shall We Date?: Obey Me! (Video Game), Stardew Valley (Video Game), Sunrise On The Reaping - Suzanne Collins, and Tortall - Tamora Pierce.

The full list of everyone who won awards!

If there is a spelling mistake on your award, or would like your name to be changed please DM, the host, @stars-forever or @character-a-character-b.

Also, if you claimed a prompt during this flash fest event and didn’t have a chance to post your story you can still post them, the collection is no longer moderated, so it should just let the story be added but if it doesn't, I will make sure that they are added. There is no deadline or time limit when it comes to this.

Congratulations to everyone who won an award, and thank you to everyone who took the time to write and vote for this flash fest!

Links

The AO3 Collection Link: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Winds_of_Change

The Discord Server Link: https://discord.gg/pCjeXgV4VV

The Tumblr Blog Link: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/character-a-character-b

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Spongey's Announcement

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Now that Fashion week is done, I want to announce here that we have... drum roll please! A Discord Server!!!! Yipee! Yipee! Anyways, I will put our discord server here and you guys can join! We all can yap about AVA/M episodes or any AU's. And plus, to that, we get to see the Early Looks of JM's Art or my Fanfiction snippets. I also post here the announcements of what fic I update since Ao3 is slightly slow on updating some people.

And of course, our Minecraft server is also provided in that discord server as well. You can join our Discord Server to join the MC Server ^^!

With that, we have a Kit Chat Bot (Cursor Alan) and Vee Chat Bot (Teen Alan) that you can talk to! Kit is our server house cat, and Vee is the server's baby boy!! So, I hope none of you guys will bully this cute patooties /silly. Please take care of them as you would care for something important to you <33 Also, Ascent Bot (Ascension to Godhood Alan) is also here, he manages our Minecraft Chat Logs XDDD

Here is our Server Link!

DISCORD SERVER

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[stars-forever]

The upcoming @character-a-character-b Flash Fest, Winds of Change, will run through their Tumblr and the Character A Character B Discord server, meaning that you do not have to be a part of the server to take part in this event.

The Flash Fest will start on April 21st.

Please visit @character-a-character-b in the following days for more information!

Our Discord Server Link is: https://discord.gg/pCjeXgV4VV

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[fanfictionlibrary01]

Fanfics being stolen and uploaded on (audiobook) site "WordStream"

I wish there were no reason for an announcement like this right before Christmas… /sad /angry

What is happening?

Fanfics of people on AO3 (works from other sites could not be confirmed as of now) have been uploaded to the site https://word-stream.com.

What do we know?

The site has no legal notice - we can not see who runs or owns the site, who is behind this, etc.. All fanfics also have a ai-generated "book cover", which adds to the iffy vibes outside the fanfic stealing. Fanfics that were found there all match their originals on AO3 with title and author, mostly by tags, and by writing. The summary is often changed, but the works are definitely stolen. Example: Stolen WordStream Version That work on AO3

We checked more works and can confirm that this is not a single case but affects more works, but this is the only SFW work example we could find atm.

Assumptions after some research and digging we did:

To listen to the audiobook versions, you must create an account on that site, which leads to an info that this site has an app. Through that, the developer and potential person behind this could be someone named "Ofek Weitzman", who in term seems to be associated to a "Speechify Inc." (according to google results: Corporation Wiki Article, Speechify App Site, speechify.com).

Speechify does text to speech via an AI voice generator. It would fit the iffy ai cover vibes.

What we recommend to do:

It stands to assume that locking your works on AO3 is the only way of preventing this. So far, we've not found works that were locked on that site, so locking your works on AO3 can protect the from being (more easily) swiped by any bot etc.. Since the site has no legal notice, looking into ways to report that (it's it's illegal for a site not to have one in Germany for example) is likely an option.

Follow up on this and get the latest updated in the Fanfic Communities Network (FCN) Discord Server!

If you have more information regarding this - e.g. if works from other sites are affected too - please reach out to us in the FCN!!

Edit 1 (1h after initial post):

Apparently, a user called @cliffweitzman claims to own this site and to offer users to send an e-mail so this user can take your works down from the site. They answered in this post by @ekingston with this:

A comment to that from our side: This is no excuse. It should not need to be said and explained that theft of intellectual property is not acceptable. We request @cliffweitzman, if they truly run that site, to immediately take down all works that have been stolen - fanfic or potential others - and that were uploaded without the author's consent, as well as to take full responsibility for their unacceptable behaviour.

Edit 2 (2h after the initial post):

The site is currently showing an error... Let's see.

Edit 3 (14h after initial post):

The site is back up, and seems to have taken down fanfics. After searching for the ones we found having been stolen from AO3, we couldn't find any - but that could be coincidence. According to this reblog, the stolen fanfics could only be hidden from the site and if you don't have an account on WordStream. Things are still very unclear, a statement or acknowledgement of this theft of intellectual property by @cliffweitzman is still pending.

[character-a-character-b]

Voting Due: Winds of Change

Votes are due on May 3, 2024, at 11:59 PM, CDT (Central Daylight Time). Please make sure that if you have submitted a story to this flash fest that you have voted. If you did not submit a story, you are welcome to vote on your favorite fics!

Please make sure to check the tags of fics before you read them. Please remember that you do not need to read a fic that could be triggering to you. If you have any questions, please reach out to me.

Information about this Flash Fest can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/character-a-character-b/781449320544288768/winds-of-change-flash-fest?source=share

Links

The AO3 Collection Link: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Winds_of_Change

The Discord Server Link: https://discord.gg/pCjeXgV4VV

The Google Voting Form Link: https://forms.gle/YJVpWWMDSJND2YK16

The Tumblr Blog Link: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/character-a-character-b

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