Well this just slapped me in the face

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I'm also not sure how much data the LLM folks have gotten out of archive-locked fics! It seems likely to me that stuff we've all published in the past couple of years, especially if archive-locked, is less likely to be in these models, but who knows lol.

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Well my comparisons with LLM scrapers turned out to be not that far off. Many thanks to BrambleBrake for sharing this—the site has been taken down with this message:

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All these feeble "make sure to go back and leave a comment when AO3 is back online 🙂" statements like...lol, most readers can't be bothered under normal circumstances, I'm sure people ripping through the thousands-of-fics drive will keep a careful spreadsheet of all the works they want to praise.

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People have always passed around fics that were taken offline; I have both received and shared works this way, in 1:1 or small private settings. But it's quite different to post them publicly on a platform that many writers are actively avoiding putting work on due to AI and security issues.

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