I love it when anons/guests find my works and kudo/leave reviews, but given the new revelation that Elon Musk is using bots to mine AO3 fanfiction for a writing AI without writer's permission, my works are now archive-locked and only available for people with an AO3 account.
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what the fuck.
For those of you who wanna quickly lock all of your works (as in, prevent people who don’t have accounts on Ao3 from reading them), you can!
Go to your Works tab, click on Edit Works, and it should take you to a page that looks like this:
Click that ALL button to select everything, then EDIT and it’ll take you to a new page. Scroll ALLLLLLL the way down to here and select “only show to registered users” in the Visibility section. Then click save and PRESTO! One additional step of security for your works, at least until AO3 decides what to do with it bc hooooooooo boy this could get sticky with legality.
What the fuck. As much as I'd rather keep it open and avaliable for all, this is bullshit. It's nothing sacred?
