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It’s Ehlers-Danlos awareness month and I am very aware right now

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Happy birthday The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe

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PSA: Your AO3 work might have been scraped for a GenAI dataset

(PLEASE NOTE: At this time, access to the dataset has been disabled. You can file a DMCA takedown request if your work is included in the scraped data to campaign for full deletion, but at this time it is considered unnecessary.)

This is intended as a general notification for all the writers following this blog who post on AO3.

Approximately 12.6 million public works were scraped from AO3 and several other published-work sites, including PaperDemon, which has regular updates on the situation as well as resources. Here is the link to their updates.

Affected AO3 users are those whose work IDs were public-facing (that is to say, not locked to registered AO3 users only), and whose work IDs are between 1 and 63,200,000.

Your work ID is the number in your work's site URL, like so:

This work has an ID only in the 61-million range, and so was scraped for the dataset.

If you wish to lock your works to be visible to logged-in users only, you can do so through Works > Edit Works > All > Edit > Only show to registered users.

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Another Ao3 Scrape???

And this one demands your full name and date of birth before you can enter it.

So this is the original scrape that everyone is (rightfully) upset about.

And here is a new one. I don't know what all they got but if you had any work on the archive between the dates listed, it's probably safe to assume they got some of yours.

Anyhow. Remember to report the datasets if you think your copyright was infringed!

How to Submit Copyright Infringement / Art Theft

Restrict your fics to the archive. Glaze, and if possible, Nightshade your art.

Fuck generative AI, and let's call this what it is. Content theft. IP theft. THEFT.

This absolutely sickens me. I feel violated. I have over 100k words on AO3. Each of those words was a labor of love. I don't want my work feeding AI slop. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

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Oh sure, when a Jewish Middle-Eastern carpenter rises from the grave you all celebrate. But when I, Strahd von Zarovich--

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Happy International Asexuality Day!!! 🖤🩶🤍💜

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so last year during a period of intense suicidal depression i made this necklace that i always wear, right, and the thing is it's genuinely brought me a lot of comfort and relief and i've developed a strong sentimental attachment to it, to the point that i can inarguably state that it's had a net positive effect on my mental wellbeing. however i did now just have to stop to almost throw up laughing because i realised that i've succumbed to the amulet.

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everyday i think of instant gratification monkey

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Rising tension is for weenies.

First session? 200 dragons immediately. Think fast fuckheads.

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I have waited ALL FUCKING YEAR TO POST THIS

Santa is coming tonight.

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Actually, no.

You don't owe your parents/guardians anything for raising you.

You don't owe them in-laws.

You don't owe them grandkids.

You don't owe them favors.

It's your life!

You decide how you want to live it.

You decide what you want or don't want in your life.

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everyday i think about the cut strahd von zarovich references in bg3. like i get it literally makes no sense within the lore but also. i miss my wife. at least i can mod his stupid fucking pike back into the game. i get it was a vlad III reference but strahd uses a bastard (heh) sword. and also is mainly a wizard now he retired from being a general like five hundred years ago. unsubscribed.

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I feel so bad for asexual vampires. They don't get to eat garlic bread :(