#data scrape

[mysterycitrus]

dick grayson the universal blood donor who will drain himself dry. dick grayson the universal legacy of children in red and green, long after he’s left gotham behind. dick grayson the universal linchpin, that new spot of light in bruce wayne’s life before the bad times, then the worse times. dick grayson the universal constant who will be there in the spotlight, still, reaching out to stop you from falling

[celestialmaison]

And while we're talking about ai theft: turn. off. grammarly. Disable it. Delete it. Get that shit off of your computer ASAP.

I never realized how much of my shit is scanned by grammarly until today. It scans my emails, my text posts on this bewitched platform, my wips on google docs, my youtube comments--literally everything ive ever typed on my laptop is scanned by grammarly. And I've been allowing this to happen for years.

Turn. Off. Grammarly.

[frownyalfred]

How are you live what's happening with ao3 and the AI? Does it discourage you in any way from publishing your stories?

Great question. I haven't archive locked my stories and don't plan to. That's a personal decision I've made for myself and my own content, and that doesn't mean I don't wholeheartedly support my fellow authors who do so. But I'm of the (again personal) opinion that my works already have been scraped, and will continue to be scraped in some capacity. As have all of my texposts on here.

I appreciate the work the OTW is doing to take down data on other sites where it has been scraped. I think that's absolutely the right course of action. But personally, I am under no illusions that by archive-locking my fics, I am 100% preventing the scraping/sharing/AI use of my content. And at this point, even when we first learned of that big "scrape" a while back, it was too late.

My goal is to make my content as widely available for readers as possible, which comes with drawbacks. Archive-locking fics came with a significant reduction in hits/comments/kudos for some authors, and I decided that was a risk I personally did not want to take. Especially when, again, I was of the belief that many of my fics had already been scraped/were vulnerable to being scraped before we learned about these mass-scraping incidents.

Additionally, I'm quite certain people have been feeding my fics into AI processors, ChatGPT, etc, for a while now. It's not something I have control over, and people will continue to do it even when they know it's wrong. Even with ao3 accounts.

I don't own my fanfiction content, I can't make money off of it, and I don't want to. This would be a very different conversation if I did. Truthfully, my only hope is that by continuing to write a/b/o, and large amounts of it, I can "spike" whatever dataset is using my fics. That thought brings me joy, even if it's a little silly and far-fetched with these better algorithms.

[enneadau]

EMERGENCY AUTHOR UPDATE

I feel like this needs to be warned about. Everything on Ao3 that isn't set to private, HAS been data scraped and fed to 3 data sites that provide data for AI training, including writing and artwork.

Yes, this includes my entire Ennead series and everything else I've ever written and posted. As well as anything you all have written but not made private.

Ao3's legal team is fighting it and one site has made the data unavailable, but the other two aren't based in the USA so the fight is harder.

This is frustrating and upsetting news, especially for those of us who now need to pick between our Guest readers who have supported us for a long time and protecting the hard work that we've put our hearts and souls into and I just ask that we support each other and our choices during this time.

The link here has more details but from now on, until I can be sure there's a way to protect my work, which I've spent decades writing and planning, my stories will be posted for members of the site only.

[whumpacabra]

I don’t have a posted DNI for a few reasons but in this case I’ll be crystal clear:

I do not want people who use AI in their whump writing (generating scenarios, generating story text, etc.) to follow me or interact with my posts. I also do not consent to any of my writing, posts, or reblogs being used as inputs or data for AI.

[kimmytsu]

squish that owl something wholesome to start the year 🥹

[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

[whatyadrawin]

Massive PSA to ALL artists who may be on Twitter, please protect yourself. I just wiped all my art off that shit site, so unfortunately a lot of NSFW art that could be viewed on there will not be available. Some is available on Slasher app, and a bit on Pixiv. I will try to post old lewd art on pixiv and any relevant lewds on Slasher app. I'm really thinking of looking into just getting my own website to display all works uncensored depending on the cost.

To give more context on what the XAi program will be doing here is a link to an article with interview answers from the Mustyness himself:

A quote from said article:

'He also claimed that xAI’s use of Twitter data would not be much different from what many are already using the platform for, adding that it would primarily be used for “text training” and “image and video training.”

“I guess we will use the public tweets — obviously not anything private* — for training as well, just like basically everyone else has,” Musk said.'

He will be using data from private accounts, what Elon means is likely data of birthdates and addresses.

I added ALT descriptions now to the image, I didn't have time before (I'm working on an overly detailed art piece right now), I hope that helps all with screen readers!

[etakeh]

If anyone's on the (super uncool but sometimes necessary in order to get a job) website Linkedin, they have made AI data collecting opt-OUT.

So settings and privacy → data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement → Off

While you're there, dedicate a good 10 minutes to going through the rest of the settings. THERE ARE SO MANY.

And they're all turned on.

[livlaughlove07]

i feel so terrible doing this but i had to. i locked all my ao3 works under archive only because i learned about the extent of the data scraping that happened. as much as i love writing and i love sharing it with as many people as possible, i cannot allow the works of which i have poured my heart, my soul, and most importantly, my time into to be scraped up and fed heartlessly to an ai bot. so for now, it’s only visible to archive users.

[jayysnotjoyful]

hey, anyone on ao3 who was a part of the data scrape;

if you are in america, I will help you file a DMCA against the website hosting the data set. sorry i can’t provide help to other countries, as I’m only educated in american law.

[opal-owl-flight]

My wifi is so funny. It decides to die on the DAY THE THIRD KITS DROP

[elderscrollsconceptart]

So I'm hearing UESP is getting scrubbed by AI companies.

I spent the better part of today and yesterday downloading as many images as I can from there in the event it's DDOS'd or similarly taken out of action

[dominiqueramseyart]

AI scraping is beyond a problem but at the same time, im too tired to be frightened of it. Especially since theres no way of avoiding it (AI has been in the background for 4 years now at least scraping away).

I won't stop posting on social media unless forced to, but I just don't feel like us artists will ever truly be replaced.

[aingeal98]

Barbara: Guys I think something strange is going on. I'm running my usual data scans but the data keeps getting corrupted by this new term that my algorithms don't seem to know what to do with. Omegaverse... Do we think it's connected to Darkseid maybe?

Steph, watching Batman and Oracle discuss theories on this threat and realising she's the only one in the room cursed with the knowledge of what's actually happening: