#anti data scraping

[melyzard]

This link includes instructions to find and uninstall it. It's a little hidden in some version of android. It was sitting at the top of the app list on my phone, but in the link it shows that it might be hidden under "system apps" and not sitting where you can easily find it.

Uninstall it. It does nothing for you, and feeds the Google machine learning bullshit (which is them profiting off you without cutting you in, and using your phone battery and process power to do it).

hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed a "security app".

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

[canadiancryptid]

Hey so just saw this on Twitter and figured there are some people who would like to know @infinitytraincrew is apparently getting deleted tonight so if you wanna archive it do it now

[opal-apparition]

25APR2025 AO3 Data Scrape on Hugging Face

There is a new A03 Datascrape on HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Chat-Error/archiveofourown-newest The "archiveofourown-newest" dataset contains approximately 14,806,149 works, while Archive of Our Own publicly listed a total of approximately 14,880,000 works as of April 23, 2025. If your works preceed that date, it's likely they are in this dataset. I submitted a DCMA takedown to HuggingFace at dmca@huggingface.co , and if you have bandwidth I recommend you do the same. You can also report the dataset by clicking the three dots and posting a dispute, however you'll likely find the poster unhelpful. Do BOTH. Should you not know what to say, there are plentiful DCMA takedown templates online, or you can copy mine.

Note that the people that posted the dataset are not the actual agents to act on the DCMA, HuggingFace is, and they're likely to try to circumvent whatever it is you post by saying:

Hello, Thank you for identifying the relevant works. Please note that you must include valid contact information, including name, address, email address, and telephone number if possible. Once this is done, we may process your request. Sincerely, Anonymous

Funny and notable that they chose to sign this "Anonymous."

Edit: In case it's not abundantly clear, do not give these random thieves your personal info! GO THROUGH HUGGINGFACE. 2nd Edit: as of 6PM EST, the data set has been taken down!

3rd Edit: as of 27APr2025... They uploaded it as a different dataset

[pvposeur]

Prevent Third-Party Sharing

Friendly reminder to go to your settings and enable Prevent third-party sharing via https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/[USERNAME]. All you have to do is replace [USERNAME] with your own username, scroll all the way down to the bottom, and you're good to go. And down below is a list of everything that will not be shared with Tumblr's own licensed network of content and research partners, including those that train AI models.

[witless-winion1]

beating AI off of my fanfic with a baseball bat

[indefenseofmasochism]

the huggingface ao3 database thread again

embarrassing.

like damn bro i consent to having sex with your mom, that doesnt mean all ao3 authors consent to having sex with your mom. she’s freaky as fuck and that’s just not a ride every man can survive

[honeyshineshipsandshit]

hey besties

in light of the Ao3 scraping I locked all my fics but after some time debating, I realize I don’t want to block real ppl from reading my work. So now all my fics are public again. And to any ai bros wanting to take go right ahead all your getting is shitty gay one shots. Fuck AI I hope all your fucking shitty ai models spit out incomprehensible graphic porn.

[anti-rop]

how can you champion free speech and then celebrate when millions of voices on tiktok are censored. hypocrite.

I didn’t want to talk about politics on this blog but, oh well, here we go. Response under the cut.

Let me preface this: I’ve never been a fan of TikTok and when talk of a ban first started to come onto the scene 6 years ago, I thought it was a good thing, for a multitude of reasons but I won't go into all of it. I'll focus on what the proposed ban and SCOTUS corresponded to. This is a topic of US national security and the type of precedents it sets for foreign companies operating in the US. I thought it would be good to act now [2019] rather than later [2025] because looking at the growth curve, it was a service that would easily become so popular that lawmakers would find themselves in an impossible position and a ban would never happen. 

Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s happened. Again, in my opinion, now a horrible precedent exists. To any foreign government out there, the message is that you are allowed to enter US markets under any pretense, with zero reciprocity for US companies, and as long as you are popular and influential enough the US government and population will go out of its way to facilitate your access

If we are going to go to such extraordinary lengths for a foreign company and government the US must make a demand of absolute reciprocity, in my opinion. Meta, X, Google, Snapchat, and other US-based technology companies must be allowed total market access in China immediately with zero control by the Chinese Government (because that is what they have done through ByteDance owning Tiktok). When the Chinese government inevitably laughs at this demand, ask yourself why. They correctly see Meta, X, Facebook, and Google as instruments of US soft power and as cultural contamination of their civic ideal which undermines their hold on power.

However, we seem to naively believe we're immune from the same influence and have waited so long to act now that we face terrible choices. The one we've made inevitably means we will have a natural experiment now of what it means to allow a government that actively seeks to undermine our civic institutions with the most powerful known technological tool to do so. And the fact that the CCP and ByteDance decided to “shut it down” rather than divest it tells us everything we need to know. No free enterprise would willingly shut off access to 170 million users. 

Also, we should be concerned that millions of Americans acted like drug addicts going through withdrawal when they couldn't access a social media app for roughly 12 hours. That is also cause for great concern. But that's a conversation for another day.

[thatshadowgastwhore]

Psa to anyone with an iPhone:

You should go into your settings, and on every single goddamn app (there isn’t a universal opt out, you’ll need to do each individually) go to

Siri & Search -> learn from this app

AND SWITCH THAT BITCH OFF so that it doesn’t let apple scrape everything you do to train their ai

[canadiancryptid]

New privacy setting just dropped! Its turned off by default!

Its under blog settings, for each individual sideblog. Bottom of the page. Don't know if you can get to it from app but you definitely can on desktop mode

[melyzard]

Time for a new edition of my ongoing vendetta against Google fuckery!

Hey friends, did you know that Google is now using Google docs to train it's AI, whether you like it or not? (link goes to: zdnet.com, July 5, 2023). Oh and on Monday, Google updated it's privacy policy to say that it can train it's two AI (Bard and Cloud AI) on any data it scrapes from it's users, period. (link goes to: The Verge, 5 July 2023). Here is Digital Trends also mentioning this new policy change (link goes to: Digital Trends, 5 July 2023). There are a lot more, these are just the most succinct articles that might explain what's happening.

FURTHER REASONS GOOGLE AND GOOGLE CHROME SUCK TODAY:

Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines (link goes to: TechCrunch, 3 July 2023) [TLDR: google got caught exporting european users' data to the US to be 'processed' by 'US government surveillance,' which is HELLA ILLEGAL. I'm not going into the Five Eyes, Fourteen Eyes, etc agreements, but you should read up on those to understand why the 'US government surveillance' people might ask Google to do this for countries that are not apart of the various Eyes agreements - and before anyone jumps in with "the US sucks!" YES but they are 100% not the only government buying foreign citizens' data, this is just the one the Swedes caught. Today.]

PwC Australia ties Google to tax leak scandal (link goes to: Reuters, 5 July 2023). [TLDR: a Russian accounting firm slipped Google "confidential information about the start date of a new tax law leaked from Australian government tax briefings." Gosh, why would Google want to spy on governments about tax laws? Can't think of any reason they would want to be able to clean house/change policy/update their user agreement to get around new restrictions before those restrictions or fines hit. Can you?

SO - here is a very detailed list of browsers, updated on 28 June, 2023 on slant.com, that are NOT based on Google Chrome (note: any browser that says 'Chromium-based' is just Google wearing a party mask. It means that Google AND that other party has access to all your data). This is an excellent list that shows pros and cons for each browser, including who the creator is and what kinds of policies they have (for example, one con for Pale Moon is that the creator doesn't like and thinks all websites should be hostile to Tor).

[its-isobel33]

So... how did the UK rights for AI bullshit go? Did artists win this one?

The AI bill didn't go through, but unfortunately It's less winning and more pushing back the threat.

The house of Lords (a part of the government made to examine bills/changes to the law) rejected the proposed AI copyright bill with a majority vote due to a number of reasons like not enough evidence of it actually being beneficial and the immoral nature of AI data-scraping. But sadly just because its been rejected doesn't mean it's gone, just pushed back...

Right now the government has said if the bill is to go through there needs to be major changes to it and an economic impact assessment (basically seeing if the potential money earned by AI outweighs the money lost to creatives) and things will be brought again to the house of Lords next week to decide again. Thankfully though everything points to them getting another rejection.

Things aren't great right now, but its still good news and a major step to getting this AI copyright nonsense stomped out. The important thing is to keep spreading the word if you're outside the UK and making sure your rejection of this bill is clear to the government if you are in the UK. (contact MP's/Local Officials ect.)

Artists/creatives won this battle, if we work hard and keep our voices heard we can win the war too!

Sources/News:

[p0k1ao3]

Hey guys! Just here with some non-fic related information!

Recently, AO3's data has been scraped by AI and millions of fics' data are being stolen. Due to this, I will be archive locking all work until further notice. I am very sorry to my friends who don't have AO3 accounts but I have to do whatever I can to avoid my work being taken by AI. I hope you understand. This also sucks for me since I only just started posting on the arcive, however I will not let it push me down and I will keep posting.

Love yall <3

(if you want more information, check out the 'ao3 scrape' tag. Here is a more in depth talk about it.)

[ryuuseirune]

i hate generative AI with a burning passion because of its negative impact on the environment, how it encourages companies to violate their users' privacy, and its constant exploitation of the working class (specifically creatives). i do not care for the argument that its outputs are "soulless" or "uncreative" or "not REAL art" because frankly i dont give a shit when actual real human beings are being put out of jobs and our data is being sold and used nonconsensually by massive corporations. if the labor issues are not enough of a problem for you then i am sorry but you just lack sympathy for workers and thats the truth

[indefenseofmasochism]

aight

huggingface ao3 scrapers try not to create a false narrative challenge level impossible. try not to commit hasty generalization challenge. try to touch grass challenge.

here’s the thread if yall wanna reblog with the logical fallacies yall find in their arguments.

[loz-tearsofahomo]

This is a reminder to change your settings to hide your blog from AI!