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If ANY of yall EVER do this shit to me, im deleting every single fic out of spite.
If I ever catch one of yall doing this to another author and I know youre a follower of my work I will block you personally on every platform
None of yall are the fic police. I DESPISE genai. I think its an insult to art, humanity, and the planet itself. But aint not a single fucking person here qualified to pick apart a strangers fic looking for a gotcha moment to make yourselves feel superior. If you think something is ai you can ask the author (most are proud of the ai use and will just tell you straight up) if they say yes you have your answer and can warn people. If they say no and you dont believe them you block and quietly keep it between you and maybe a close group of friends. Spreading misinformation is DANGEROUS. And NONE of you doing this shit are anywhere near qualified to do it.
Posting this here from my main too bc I feel that strongly about it
You dont get to witch hunt and scour peoples work just frothing at the mouth hoping someone messes up so you can publicly humiliate and gang up on them. Fuck genai and every single poser and lover that uses it but if you are not 1000000000% certain that something is made with it you shut. the. fuck. up.
I'm about to get mean because this shit? this pisses me all the way off.
"hurr durr these very common writing practices are SUPER OBVIOUS AI TELLS!!!!!!!!!! obviously this is an AI invention and not the result of AI being trained on THOUSANDS OF REAL FUCKING STORIES!!!!!!! we're all very intelligent!!!!!!!"
I hate yall. I hate yall for fucking ruining fanfic with your goddamn motherfucking AI obsession. "ooh there's em dashes!" YEAH REAL WRITERS USE THOSE. "there's long paragraphs!" YEAH BECAUSE THATS HOW PEOPLE WRITE STORIES.
we're not "writing like AI" - AI is writing like us, because it fucking stole from us in the first fucking place.
I've never used AI in my work, not ever, but guess what, my fics are ALL written like that. long paragraphs, long sentences, em dashes and hyphens and other grammatical tools, because I fucking know HOW TO WRITE.
quite frankly, if you think these things are "genAI inventions" you're just telling the world that YOU DON'T READ ENOUGH.
Hey squiggly! I noticed you like Epic—don’t understand how I possibly missed that before 😭😭
I gather your favorite saga is Ithaca? Top-tier choice. Do you have a favorite character/voice?
Hey friend! 🥰 I do! In all fairness to you- I’ve only just recently started sharing my love for the series more intensely, but I adore the sagas and Mr. jalapeño’s incredible work!
It is! I was gonna say Vengence saga as my favorite at first because, like- listen to it- but then Penelope’s first song happened and I ASCENDED! 🥰🥰🥰 Anna Lee Casey’s voice is god tier- when she sang the second part to The Challenge (“Though I never thought that these would be the lengths we go for love, I would not have it any other way.” With the music in the back- ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? Chills. Chills every time, I tear up listening to it and I couldn’t tell you why it’s so powerful and vocally perfect AHH!) Don’t even get me STARTED on Would You Fall In Love With Me Again, I could yap for HOURS!
Oh and Odysseus, I Can’t Help But Wonder and Hold Them Down are so incredible but Penelope’s songs are for CARVED on my repeat faves list cause my GOD-
All that to say- I don’t have a specific favorite voice admittedly! I could spin soliloquies about Anna and Troy and Steven and Janani and so on for hours, but really I adore the entire cast and their incredible work! They paint a beautiful picture of the story with their sound, and I just can’t pick one singular voice, you know?
But for favorite character…sing it with me now-
✨HERMEEEEEEES✨
Is anyone surprised? Is anyone shocked? 🤣🤣🤣 (also been binging all of Troy’s music cause he’s so freaking talented his zodiac series is to die for!)
Thanks for asking friend! :D Lemme know your favorite character/song and voices! 🥰
This is all so relatable! My favorite saga bounces between vengeance and Ithaca every two days or so. They’re both so good!
Favorite song is DIFFICULT. I’d have to say Would You Fall in Love with Me (could also easily yap for hours; the animatics fuel that), Dangerous, Six Hundred Strike, and Ruthlessness bounces between my number one spot. They’re all so delicious and scratch my brain so nicely. Just depends on my mood for which one gets the top spot.
My favorite voice has got to be either Anna or Steven; Troy has my heart for his own songs, he gets his own spot. (Hermes is truly the King Henry of Epic).
Character…hm…I gotta go with Odysseus. He’s just so silly goofy. “I’ll become the monster to everyone but us” and casually forgot to tell his crew “us” was Penelope, Telemachus, and himself <3 Hermes is a close second though. The gang. The sillies. The troublemakers. (Shout out to the lotus eaters; Epics version is so much cuter than the actual Odyssey).
And YES. Troy’s music is just—yes. On my morning routine playlist.
We have already averted truly apocalyptic levels of global warming.
Yes, read that again. Let it sink in. This is what the science now says. We have already averted truly apocalyptic global warming.
To quote David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, from his huge feature in the New York Times:
"Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of renewables, a truly global political mobilization, a clearer picture of the energy future and serious policy focus from world leaders, we have cut expected warming almost in half in just five years...
The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse."
(New York Times, October 22, 2022. Unpaywalled here. Emphasis mine. And yes, this vision of the future is backed up by the current science on the issue, as he explains at length in the article.)
So we've already averted truly apocalyptic warming, and we've already cut expected warming IN HALF in just the past five years.
The pace of technology, of innovation, of prices, of feasibility, of discovery, of organizing, of grassroots movements, of movements in other countries around the world, have all picked up the pace so fast in the last five years.
Renewable technology and capacity are both increasing at an exponential rate. It's all S-curves, ones that look like this:
-via The Economist, June 20, 2024.
How much more will we manage in another five years? Another ten? Another twenty?
I know the US is about to fucking suck about the environment for the next four years. But the momentum of renewable energy is far too much to stop - both in the US (x) and around the world.
(Huge shoutouts to India, China, and Brazil for massive gains for the environment in renewables, and Brazil for massive progress against Amazon deforestation.)
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-Doesn’t have any family back in Ithaca; he was kinda dreading leaving his found family :(
-associate of Odysseus; they knew each other as kids but grew apart as Ody got older
-treats Ody with so much respect; he greatly admires his knowledge of battle and in general trusts him—except when he’s stupid. Chewed him out—in the kindest way possible—for telling Polyphemus his name.
-Comforted Ody (tried to) after Polities death (even though the poor baby was devastated himself)
-you’ll typically see him doing the jobs no one else wants to do. Up in the crows next, cleaning, etc.
-When he gets (truly) angry you better fucking RUN. You’ll know his level of anger by the size of his smile. If it’s gone he is ANGRY.
-curly, short brown hair with blue eyes
-uses a headband Polities gave him to keep his curls out of his eyes
-has a small scar on his arm from falling out of a tree as a child
-His mother was a sweet mortal woman who raised him to be understanding and kind. Unfortunately (as with most of Apollo’s lovers) her life ended tragically. While gathering apples in the forest, a mortal man accidentally shot her with an arrow, mistaking her for a deer. Alex hunted him down and killed him in retribution. He’s always been bitter about that, and dislikes people who don’t think before they shoot. He’s adapt at medicine and is a good archer (watered down from Apollo, but he had to train to get to this point). X-ray vision on how people are feeling; similar to Polities, he always knows when someone isn’t fine.
-Fairly close with Apollo, in the sense they’ve talked a few times. Alexander prays to him when he’s anxious or worried. Sometimes Apollo will respond directly, other times he’ll send him a sign—most often familiar music.
-Died to Zeus in Thunder Bringer
-One of the soldiers against “killing” an immortal cow, but Eurylochus didn’t really listen
-Now happier shit for my baby
-Teasy little shit; makes fun of anyone he can
-Roommates with Polities
-Gets into tickle fights frequently; uses it to cheer people up but is also just silly goofy like that. Most often it’s Polities and Elpenor; he’ll poke at Ody now and then though
-Ody specifically tickles him; to remind him of their old friendship but also because he’s like a little brother to the captain
-Also Polities; they share a room, they have the same personality (basically), and both of them can tell when the other is down. They’re besties, your honor (or were; WHO’S CUTTING ONIONS IN HERE) 🤷♀️
-As a child of Apollo, he is up at the crack of dawn
-most of the time he’ll let him sleep, but if he’s feeling extra bored he’ll tickle Polities awake
-is usually out of the room before the sunrise has finished—Ody and Eurylochus are both awake by them, so sometimes he’ll bond with them, or any other crew mate that’s awake
I’m finally back after just ghosting around for a while, and I have some updates.
Let’s just get this out of the way; I lost all motivation. The last half of the year I was stressed constantly, and I tried to power through it, but it just led to major spots of not wanting to write ANYTHING anymore.
I deeply apologize to anyone else who requested something for my spring event, but I don’t think I can write for demon slayer anymore, or at least for a while. My love of it has been drained, and I just have zero interest to write for it. I’ll still try my best to put them out, but it will be a while. I know recently some people have been reading my older fics and requesting part 2 for a lot of them, so that will also be happening some time this year, it will also just be a while.
You can also expect some changes in my fandom list; Epic has become a huge obsession of mine, and I’d like to try to write for it, once I understand it a bit more. Let me know if that interests you!
I also reached 60 followers! I am so grateful to anyone who decided to join me. However, I understand if the changes being made cause anyone to unfollow. Just thank you for being here, even for a little while ❤️
Again, I am so sorry to anyone that put in asks, and I’ll still try to get to them eventually. Thank you to everyone who has been so understanding and kind to me about all of this!
I am on my knees begging you to reblog this post and to stop reblogging the original ones I sent out yesterday. This is the complete account with all the most recent info; the other one is just sending people down senselessly panicked avenues that no longer lead anywhere.
IN SHORT
Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify and (aspiring?) voice actor, used AI to scrape thousands of popular, finished works off AO3 to list them on his own for-profit website and in his attached app. He did this without getting any kind of permission from the authors of said work or informing AO3. Obviously.
When fandom at large was made aware of his theft and started pushing back, Weitzman issued a non-apology on the original social media posts—using
his dyslexia;
his intent to implement a tip-system for the plagiarized authors; and
a sudden willingness to take down the work of every author who saw my original social media posts and emailed him individually with a ‘valid’ claim,
as reasons we should allow him to continue monetizing fanwork for his own financial gain.
When we less-than-kindly refused, he took down his ‘apologies’ as well as his website (allegedly—it’s possible that our complaints to his web host, the deluge of emails he received or the unanticipated traffic brought it down, since there wasn’t any sort of official statement made about it), and when it came back up several hours later, all of the work formerly listed in the fan fiction category was no longer there.
THE TAKEAWAYS
1. Cliff Weitzman (aka Ofek Weitzman) is a scumbag with no qualms about taking fanwork without permission, feeding it to AI and monetizing it for his own financial gain;
2. Fandom can really get things done when it wants to, and
3. Our fanworks appear to be hidden, but they’re NOT DELETED from Weitzman’s servers, and independently published, original works are still listed without the authors' permission. We need to hold this man responsible for his theft, keep an eye on both his current and future endeavors, and take action immediately when he crosses the line again.
THE TIMELINE, THE DETAILS, THE SCREENSHOTS (behind the cut)
Sunday night, December 22nd 2024, I noticed an influx in visitors to my fic You & Me & Holiday Wine. When I searched the title online, hoping to find out where they came from, a new listing popped up (third one down, no less):
This listing is still up today, by the way, though now when you follow the link to word-stream, it just brings you to the main site. (Also, to be clear, this was not the cause for the influx of traffic to my fic; word-stream did not link back to the original work anywhere.)
I followed the link to word-stream, where to my horror Y&M&HW was listed in its entirety—though, beyond the first half of the first chapter, behind a paywall—along with a link promising to take me—through an app downloadable on the Apple Store—to an AI-narrated audiobook version. When I searched word-stream itself for my ao3 handle I found both of my multi-chapter fics were listed this way:
Because the tags on my fics (which included genres* and characters, but never the original IPs**) weren’t working, I put ‘Kara Danvers’ into the search bar and discovered that many more supercorp fics (Supergirl TV fandom, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor pairing) were listed.
I went looking online for any mention of word-stream and AI plagiarism (the covers—as well as the ridiculously inflated number of reviews and ratings—made it immediately obvious that AI fuckery was involved), but found almost nothing: only one single Reddit post had been made, and it received (at that time) only a handful of upvotes and no advice.
I decided to make a tumblr post to bring the supercorp fandom up to speed about the theft. I draw as well as write for fandom and I’ve only ever had to deal with art theft—which has a clear set of steps to take depending on where said art was reposted—and I was at a loss regarding where to start in this situation.
After my post went up I remembered Project Copy Knight, which is worth commending for the work they’ve done to get fic stolen from AO3 taken down from monetized AI 'audiobook’ YouTube accounts. I reached out to @echoekhi, asking if they’d heard of this site and whether they could advise me on how to get our works taken down.
While waiting for a reply I looked into Copy Knight’s methods and decided to contact OTW’s legal department:
And then I went to bed.
By morning, tumblr friends @makicarn and @fazedlight as well as a very helpful tumblr anon had seen my post and done some very productive sleuthing:
@echoekhi had also gotten back to me, advising me, as expected, to contact the OTW. So I decided to sit tight until I got a response from them.
That response came only an hour or so later:
Which was 100% understandable, but still disappointing—I doubted a handful of individual takedown requests would accomplish much, and I wasn’t eager to share my given name and personal information with Cliff Weitzman himself, which is unavoidable if you want to file a DMCA.
I decided to take it to Reddit, hoping it would gain traction in the wider fanfic community, considering so many fandoms were affected. My Reddit posts (with the updates at the bottom as they were emerging) can be found here and here.
A helpful Reddit user posted a guide on how users could go about filing a DMCA against word-stream here (to wobbly-at-best results)
A different helpful Reddit user signed up to access insight into word-streams pricing. Comment is here.
Smells unbelievably scammy, right? In addition to those audacious prices—though in all fairness any amount of money would be audacious considering every work listed is accessible elsewhere for free—my dyscalculia is screaming silently at the sight of that completely unnecessary amount of intentionally obscured numbers.
Speaking of which! As soon as the post on r/AO3—and, as a result, my original tumblr post—began taking off properly, sometime around 1 pm, jumpscare! A notification that a tumblr account named @cliffweitzman had commented on my post, and I got a bit mad about the gist of his message :
Fortunately he caught plenty of flack in the comments from other users (truly you should check out the comment section, it is extremely gratifying and people are making tremendously good points), in response to which, of course, he first tried to both reiterate and renegotiate his point in a second, longer comment (which I didn’t screenshot in time so I’m sorry for the crappy notification email formatting):
which he then proceeded to also post to Reddit (this is another Reddit user’s screenshot, I didn’t see it at all, the notifications were moving too fast for me to follow by then)
... where he got a roughly equal amount of righteously furious replies. (Check downthread, they're still there, all the way at the bottom.)
After which Cliff went ahead & deleted his messages altogether.
It’s not entirely clear whether his account was suspended by Reddit soon after or whether he deleted it himself, but considering his tumblr account is still intact, I assume it’s the former. He made a handful of sock puppet accounts to play around with for a while, both on Reddit and Tumblr, only one of which I have a screenshot of, but since they all say roughly the same thing, you’re not missing much:
And then word-stream started throwing a DNS error.
That lasted for a good number of hours, which was unfortunately right around the time that a lot of authors first heard about the situation and started asking me individually how to find out whether their work was stolen too. I do not have that information and I am unclear on the perimeters Weitzman set for his AI scraper, so this is all conjecture: it LOOKS like the fics that were lifted had three things in common:
They were completed works;
They had over several thousand kudos on AO3; and
They were written by authors who had actively posted or updated work over the past year.
If anyone knows more about these perimeters or has info that counters my observation, please let me know!
I finally thought to check/alert evil Twitter during this time, and found out that the news was doing the rounds there already. I made a quick thread summarizing everything that had happened just in case. You can find it here.
I went to Bluesky too, where fandom was doing all the heavy lifting for me already, so I just reskeeted, as you do, and carried on.
Sometime in the very early evening, word-stream went back up—but the fan fiction category was nowhere to be seen. Tentative joy and celebration!***
That’s when several users—the ones who had signed up for accounts to gain intel and had accessed their own fics that way—reported that their work could still be accessed through their history. Relevant Reddit post here.
Sooo—
We’re obviously not done. The fanwork that was stolen by Weitzman may be inaccessible through his website right now, but they aren’t actually gone. And the fact that Weitzman wasn’t willing to get rid of them altogether means he still has plans for them.
This was my final edit on my Reddit post before turning off notifications, and it's pretty much where my head will be at for at least the foreseeable future:
Please feel free to add info in the comments, make your own posts, take whatever action you want to take to protect your work. I only beg you—seriously, I’m on my knees here—to not give up like I saw a handful of people express the urge to do. Keep sharing your creative work and remain vigilant and stay active to make sure we can continue to do so freely. Visit your favorite fics, and the ones you’ve kept in your ‘marked for later’ lists but never made time to read, and leave kudos, leave comments, support your fandom creatives, celebrate podficcers and support AO3. We created this place and it’s our responsibility to keep it alive and thriving for as long as we possibly can.
Also FUCK generative AI. It has NO place in fandom spaces.
THE 'SMALL' PRINT (some of it in all caps):
*Weitzman knew what he was doing and can NOT claim ignorance. One, it’s pretty basic kindergarten stuff that you don’t steal some other kid’s art project and present it as your own only to act surprised when they protest and then tell the victim that they should have told you sooner that they didn’t want their project stolen. And two, he was very careful never to list the IPs these fanworks were based on, so it’s clear he was at least familiar enough with the legalities to not get himself in hot water with corporate lawyers. Fucking over fans, though, he figured he could get away with that.
**A note about the AI that Weitzman used to steal our work: it’s even greasier than it looks at first glance. It’s not just the method he used to lift works off AO3 and then regurgitate onto his own website and app. Looking beyond the untold horrors of his AI-generated cover ‘art’, in many cases these covers attempt to depict something from the fics in question that can’t be gleaned from their summaries alone. In addition, my fics (and I assume the others, as well) were listed with generated genres; tags that did not appear anywhere in or on my fic on AO3 and were sometimes scarily accurate and sometimes way off the mark. I remember You & Me & Holiday Wine had ‘found family’ (100% correct, but not tagged by me as such) and I believe The Shape of Soup was listed as, among others, ‘enemies to friends to lovers’ and ‘love triangle’ (both wildly inaccurate). Even worse, not all the fic listed (as authors on Reddit pointed out) came with their original summaries at all. Often the entire summary was AI-generated. All of these things make it very clear that it was an all-encompassing scrape—not only were our fics stolen, they were also fed word-for-word into the AI Weitzman used and then analyzed to suit Weitzman’s needs. This means our work was literally fed to this AI to basically do with whatever its other users want, including (one assumes) text generation.
***Fan fiction appears to have been made (largely) inaccessible on word-stream at this time, but I’m hearing from several authors that their original, independently published work, which is listed at places like Kindle Unlimited, DOES still appear in word-stream’s search engine. This obviously hurts writers, especially independent ones, who depend on these works for income and, as a rule, don’t have a huge budget or a legal team with oceans of time to fight these battles for them. If you consider yourself an author in the broader sense, beyond merely existing online as a fandom author, beyond concerns that your own work is immediately at risk, DO NOT STOP MAKING NOISE ABOUT THIS.
Again, please, please PLEASE reblog this post instead of the one I sent originally. All the information is here, and it's driving me nuts to see the old ones are still passed around, sending people on wild goose chases.
Reminder that ao3 does not have an app. Any apps you see are third party and are making money off of the writers without their consent. They’re also probably harvesting your data. Do not support this garbage.
Once again. Ao3 doesn't have an app. If you see an Ao3 app, it's not official and will probably steal your data. Don't download it, use the web version. It functions just fine on mobile.
