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You know what, I'm worried about OTW's Legal Chair about AI & AO3. Like, those machine learning systems inevitably will be used for commercial purpose, why are they allowed to scrape AO3? Fans never want their works to be fed to machine learning, so why wouldn't OTW protect fans on this, legally and technologically?
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It looks like OTW took down that comment, so I haven’t read the full text of it.
My broad opinion (yes, I see you, inbox of 77+ asks), is that AI is here to stay, so we have to figure out how to make it more ethical and reasonable rather than just trying to ban it.
I have mixed feelings about the scraping of non-public domain datasets where authors have not contributed on purpose.
In the case of AO3 specifically, I think, as always, that far more of us should archive lock. (But we should also download everything we want to keep because that means no Wayback machine copy.)
Ah, okay, the actual statement is interesting:
Katherine: When you think about AI technology, fan works, and copyright, what excites you? And, what keeps you up at night?
Betsy: One of the things that excites me—which is probably a bit off to the side of what most people are talking about with AI and copyright—is that AIs are reading fan fiction now. For a long time, machine learning relied almost exclusively on data sources that were known to be in the copyright public domain, such as works published prior to 1927 and public records. The result of that was that machines were often learning archaic ideas—learning to associate certain professions with certain races and genders, for example. Now, machine learning is turning to broader sources from across the internet, including fan works. That means that machines will learn how to describe and express a much more contemporary, broad, inclusive, and diverse set of ideas.
I’m also intrigued by some of the expressive possibilities that AI may create. Will DALL·E or ChatGPT become characters in fan fiction? Surely they will. I want to read the fan-created stories where DALL·E and ChatGPT fall in love with each other (or don’t), get into arguments (or don’t), buy a house together (or don’t), team up to solve (or perpetrate!) crimes….
As for what keeps me up at night, I remain mostly optimistic. I think it would be a very sad turn of events if some of the newly begun litigation about data crawling and scraping ended up preventing machines from building contemporary, inclusive, broad-based data pools to draw on. I think it would be very sad if people turned to AI-created works instead of finding, exploring, and making fan works of their own. But I don’t think either of those things is very likely to happen. Fans make fan works because they love doing it. They feel compelled to tell the stories they imagine, and they want to share those with communities of other fans. They use fan work creation to build skills and find their own voices. I don’t think that the emergence of new technologies will stop them from doing that.
The first thing I’d note here is that the question is literally about what “excites” her. She didn’t just decide to say that AI is exciting because she loves it sooo much: she’s repeating the terms of the question.
I think she’s overly optimistic about fanfic teaching AI to not be a dickhead, but on the other hand, works from 1927 are so unabashedly racist, that perhaps it’s an improvement.
Honestly, my big takeaway here is that she doesn’t think AI is going to actually affect fanfic writers or AO3 all that much, so she’s not concerned about that.
She thinks the scraping itself is fair use and gives pretty good reasons for this (in the second answer, which you can see at the link above). She’s more interested in the other aspects of AI, legally and ethically, than in handwringing about AO3 itself or fanfic writers becoming obsolete or whatever. Makes sense to me.
Granted, it was maybe not the very best quote to include in an OTW post, but OTW being bad at PR means it’s a day ending in y. This all seems like a bit of a tempest in a teapot.
I made a mistake. Will be deleting all of my socials in 1 hour (joke)
Ultra Jump June 2023 cover feat.Jodio Joestar and Rohan Kishibe.
Tie his ass up before he gets into another part
today on ao3 tips, here's a quick follow up to this post about the ao3 "mark for later"/TBR/save for later function! ive seen some stuff going around lately lamenting that there's no easy way to filter out "character x reader" or "character x OC" fics from search results, but there absolutely is!
very quick and simple fix, just add "-reader" and/or "-original*" to the "search within results" bar (not "other tags to exclude", which might be where the confusion is coming from). it looks like this:
here is what it looks like with both filtered out:
the "*" after original is an indicator for the filters to catch the "original female--", "original male--", and "original character" tags, which is why is should be included! as a caveat, this also removes anything that has the word "original" in the summary or tags, so do be aware of that. (meaning this will also grab anything that has original characters tagged even if they AREN'T in a pairing, plus anything that uses the word "original" in the normal sense)
also, || designates "OR" for the filter search, so it is optional (and can be replaced with just a simple space) but i like to include it to be extra sure. i have checked and both results work.
anyway, happy reading, everyone!
Team TAKA ….
I looove Sasuke’s shinden hair and team taka gaiden designs.. I want to combine them.. I think; they are looks so good like this..
PLS, can you do prompts where a character ACCIDENTALLY confesses their love?
cw: cursing (?) feel free to use!
most annoying people in every fandom are the people who are like sorry this is cringe 😅😓 sorry for participating in this fandom i know it is cringe. like maybe for you it is. idgaf. that's between you and your own shame complex
hi editing the original post (but not touching the reblog version with my addition that i like more) because i want to clarify that this does not mean fandom is above criticism. feeling constant self shame doesn't help anybody, let alone yourself, and we're not going to get anywhere near a rounded discussion on fandom and fandom culture if people tie their self-worth so extensively to a media and the way people criticize it, as that has tended to happen in recent years.