hey y’all!
to make a long story short, elon musk has co-founded a company which is creating a writing-based AI. in the same way art-based AIs scope the internet for art to then warp to fit prompts, this writing AI will do the same, but for stories, and one of the sites it will take its base content from is almost certainly ao3.
if you know anything about me, you know I’m an astronomer who hates musk more than anyone, and frankly I’d rather have my computer thrown off my department’s building than let something he’s created use my writing.
since the AI takes its content from the open internet, I’ll be moving all of my fics to private, meaning that those with ao3 accounts can still read them, but anyone without an account [including AIs] will be unable to see them at all, and I’m urging my fellow fic authors to do the same. musk, out of everyone, doesn’t deserve to benefit from the stories you’ve written.
