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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.
Wow, now there's a bot going around on Ao3 telling people that the "moderators" will delete works from "deprecated" fandoms and impose bans.
Fearmongering bullshit, but it's fearmongering bullshit that seems to be taking advantage of the recent spotlight series in order to trick authors into deleting their fics.
Just. Why.
What the hell does anyone get out of making these bots.
There's a theory already that this makes it easier for copyright infringers to steal fanfics because you can't prove the authorship of a deleted work.
This is pure evil
Spread the word
p.s. The comments look something like this:
p.p.s. There's no "new" policy that bans original works, either. Everything that was allowed, is still allowed. This is a "please read our TOS ffs" awareness campaign - not a surprise rugpull. Don't delete anything, please. It's an archive.
pov: sherlock & toby in a "who can get men away from molly more quickly" contest
there's something about this image that is making me laugh loud as hell
sherlock is me when i stand up fast and my blood pressure suddenly drops
LOL alternate interpretations that instantly spring to mind the longer I look at this screenshot:
Sherlock the puppetmaster, controlling Molly from behind the scenes
Sherlock summoning Molly into existence from an alternate dimension
Sherlock blessing Molly
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toxic yuri vs toxic yaoi YAY! /j
Alright, long rant incoming.
Sherlolly family Wip
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It would be the very last time Molly Hooper would interpret "would you like to walk through woodlands with me?" as a potential romantic interlude with Sherlock Holmes. Her new sandals would never recover from the mud splatter, just as her poor heart would, again, fail to adjust to the disappointment.
Attn authors on AO3! Just learned about this on a writing discord Iâm in and thought Iâd share.
A new website, https://rivd.net/, has cropped up and has been shown to have stolen/scraped works from Ao3, which are being scraped and uploaded at a rather impressive speed.
At this time, it isn't clear if site owners have wised up and have started taking the fics down, as the site requires an account and also the current *justified outrage* at this has led to an apparent overload on the site's servers, meaning they've basically shut down the search and privatized their fanfiction category.
The best way to protect your work if it has not already been scraped is by locking it to all logged out users. Itâs unfortunate as guest comments and kudos are so precious to us authors, but it will protect your works from being scraped.
Further information can be found in this Reddit thread and the below screenshots: https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/1dvyvqm/ao3_fics_being_uploaded_to_rivd_by_a_bot/
NOTE: DO NOT USE RIVD's DMCA TAKEDOWN FORM. You SHOULD NOT be required to provide your *government ID* to protect your intellectual property. This is borderline a phishing scam. RIVD is hosted by Cloudflare, who have a system for reporting abuse on sites which use their services which can be found at the following site: https://www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/reporting-abuse/.
Thank you @punemy-spotted for compiling all this info and helping get the word out.
oooh, sherlolly soulmates au?
On his return from Sherrinford, Sherlock discovers Molly's name is on his wrist, and it is infuriating.
"I don't want a soulmate," he snarls, because he's petulant.
"Good, because I don't want you," she says while pulling her sleeve over the place where his name is on her wrist, because this time, she means it.
Give me a pairing, an AU setting, and Iâll write you a three-sentence fic!
AU Time âŠ
AU where Molly Hooper secretly writes medical thrillers under an assumed name. Her pen name is something a focus group picked out. Itâs rediculous and testosterone filled like Dakota Steele or something.
Thatâs how she can afford such a nice flat. And the real reason she took notes while solving crimes with Sherlock was that she will work odd traits she observes into her characters.
Sherlock ticked her off so badly once that she made him both halves of a married couple in one of her books just so she could kill him twice.
Yes!!!! Specially that killing him twice!!!
Mycroft knows. He got Sherlock that particular book as a gift.
Sherlock has no clue. But itâs his favorite book. He keeps it in his bedside table drawer and rereads it whenever heâs stuck on a case.
Pretty sure Iâve actually reblogged this a couple times already. But guess what!
would you guys be interested in molliarty fanart?
yes
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Listen. Listen, I love sherlolly, but I have a confession to make, it was actually molliarty the ship that got me into this fandom, and I've been thinking about them a lot recently. Mostly about moriarty. But also I finally feel brave enough to post an animatic I made for this ship in 2021. I WILL post said content, but I'm not sure if I should do it here or on my main blog. so.
It's probably obvious by now but. I love vampires. Anyway, I did this piece inspired by the aestethic of vampire hunter D, a truly recomemded movie if you like old animes, vampires, action, tragic romances and gothic vibes.
Sherlock's not having it when anyone dares to say anything about his Molly.
Sherlolly prompt: Molly and Sherlock's up until now secret relationship has become public and the tabloid press hasn't been kind to Molly. Sherlock hasn't seen or spoken to her all day and he's worried she's not handling it well, but her reaction surprises her. Bonus if Kitty Riley is involved, either in person or not!
Damn, I had fun with this. Thanks for the prompt, penaltywaltz
There was a reason why these things were kept silent.
Sherlock gnashed his teeth at the barrage of people crowdingaround Barts. It was solid wall of reporters, with their cameras, and theirabsolutely disgusting lack of morals. Sherlock decided that he hatedblackmailers, reporters, and serial killers in that order. At least serialkillers had a moral code of conduct.
âMy God,â muttered John.
âPlease donât call out the name of the supposedly all-powerful,âsneered Sherlock. âIt would be wasted on this rabble.â
âSherlock,â said John. âAre you sure sheâs taking it well?â
âI donât know,â said Sherlock. âShe hasnât been answering herphone, she hasnât been replying to texts, and sheâs been in the morgue all thedamn day.â
âWell, weâll fight through this lot,â said John. âGregâs on hisway, too.â
âTell Graham to get rid of the people at the back as well. She hasenough on her plate with Moriarty just defeated.â
âYou go on,â said John, as if he hadnât heard what Sherlock said.
Sherlock steeled his nerves, and strode forward, to be nearlyblinded by the flashlights.
âMr. Holmes, does Miss Hooper know about Miss Matthews?â
âMr. Holmes, do you tax Miss Hooper sexually?â
âMr. Holmes, when did you two get together?â
âMr. Holmes, was this a romance in dire circumstances?â
âMr. Holmes, are you, Mr. Watson and Miss Hooper in it together?â
The last one almost got a scathing retort back.
Sherlock knew why he had been keeping his relationship with Mollya secret now. It wasnât because of the dangerous criminals, the fact that Johncouldnât stop staring at them like they were two very wild monkeys, or the factthat Mary had burst out laughing. It was because of the press.
Moriartyâs death had been carefully orchestrated. Molly was, onceagain, key in the plans. And this time, he had asked more from her than anyoneelse.
Careful in the kidnapping, extraordinarily skilful duringquestioning, Molly Hooper once again proved her superiority to the human racein general, and even to Sherlock Holmes. Mollyâs part in the whole thing was socarefully questioned, that she might have given in, if not for their veryvoracious sexual appetites.
No one could blame Sherlock for kissing Molly soundly before sheleft to be kidnapped by Moriarty. It was inevitable, and almost a relief. Andas Molly said, the endorphins from their sex that time helped her make it throughthe ordeal.
But Mollyâs expertise lay in fighting off crime-lords, inautopsies, and kissing Sherlock. They didnât lie in facing the press.
A day of a silent Molly never boded well for Sherlock. He wasextremely used to prompt replies from her. He was used to her coffee, he wasused to her cooking, and he was even used to her cat. He was used to kissingher in the mornings, he was used to quick romps in the supply closets, and hewas used to talking, non-stop, about his cases, while she listened bemusedly.
And as he elbowed through the crowd, burst through the hospitaland headed for the morgue, he felt a very familiar grip of fear. He didnât wantto loose Molly. She could stick with him through the Consulting Criminal andhis moods, she could live with him despite him never being worthy of her, butSherlock could never, ever, escape the nagging thought that she wouldleave and he wonât be able to find an adequate reason for her to stay.
âMolly!â said Sherlock, striding in.
The Morgue was empty, and Sherlockâs heart was in his throat.
The door of Mollyâs office swung open, and a slightly absentminded Molly Hooper walked in, staring at chart.
âOh, Sherlock!â she said, with a grin. âHi! What brings you here? Itâsnot my lunch hour, and Iâm too busy for anything else.â
âYou havenât replied to my texts,â said Sherlock, after a pause.
âSorry, my phoneâs been in my office,â she said. âI was not reallyconcentrating on it. Did you know, a guy came in with one of the strangestcases of frying? Itâs brilliant. He was cooking something, and everything wentmad. Iâve spent all day with his samples.â
Sherlock was briefly stunned. This was followed by an immediateinterest in whatever Molly was speaking of.
â- and his brain looks like a large chicken nugget,â finishedMolly happily.
âMolly, what about the press?â
âWhat?â asked Molly, blinking.
âThe press,â Sherlockâs fear was turning into amusement. Hesmiled. âYou know. The one at your doorstep. Asking me whether or not you, me,and John are engaging in a bit of fun?â
âOh, that one!â said Molly, blinking rapidly again. She grinned mischievously,and blushed. âI told them that you and I were star crossed lovers from anotherplanet, and itâs really weird that we met in this life, since weâd metapproximately four lives back.â
âReally?â asked Sherlock, his smile twitching.
âI told another one that I was actually an undercover spy and thatmy hair colour was originally red, like hers,â said Molly, being as affableabout it as possible.
âLike hers?â prodded Sherlock.
âThis woman. Said she knew you. Some Kitty Riley â and I was like,âwell, you canât have known him, either people know him as a figure on thestreet, or they are best friends.â And She says to me, âyes, I knew him betterthan anybody else.â This sort of made me laugh, and sheâs just looking at me. Ilaunch into that spy story, and then I jump into the details of poor Mr. Frieshere. I even give her spy details of other missions, in Germany and Spain andall. I donât know if she believed me or not. I certainly had her hooked. It wasreally fun.â
Sherlock did everything he could to restrain himself. Molly grinnedat him again, pushing her glasses up her nose, and Sherlock decided that Mr.Fries be damned, he really had to kiss her right now.
Iâm Declaring War Against âWhat Ifâ Videos: Project Copy-Knight
What Are âWhat Ifâ Videos?
These videos follow a common recipe: A narrator, given a fandom (usually anime ones like My Hero Academia and Naruto), explores an alternative timeline where something is different. Maybe the main character has extra powers, maybe a key plot point goes differently. They then go on and make up a whole new story, detailing the conflicts and romance between characters, much like an ordinary fanfic.
Except, they are fanfics. Actual fanfics, pulled off AO3, FFN and Wattpad, given a different title, with random thumbnail and background images added to them, narrated by computer text-to-speech synthesizers.
They are very easy to make: pick a fanfic, copy all the text into a text-to-speech generator, mix the resulting audio file with some generic art from the fandom as the background, give it a snappy title like âWhat if Deku had the Power of Ten Ringsâ, photoshop an attention-grabbing thumbnail, dump it onto YouTube and get thousands of views.
In fact, the process is so straightforward and requires so little effort, itâs pretty clear some of these channels have automated pipelines to pump these out en-masse. They donât bother with asking the fic authors for permission. Sometimes they donât even bother with putting the ficâs link in the description or crediting the author. These content-farms then monetise these videos, so they get a cut from YouTubeâs ads.
In short, an industry has emerged from the systematic copyright theft of fanfiction, for profit.
Project Copy-Knight
Since the adversaries almost certainly have automated systems set up for this, the only realistic countermeasure is with another automated system. Identifying fanfics manually by listening to the videos and searching them up with tags is just too slow and impractical.
And so, I came up with a simple automated pipeline to identify the original authors of âWhat Ifâ videos.
It would go download these videos, run speech recognition on it, search the text through a database full of AO3 fics, and identify which work it came from. After manual confirmation, the original authors will be notified that their works have been subject to copyright theft, and instructions provided on how to DMCA-strike the channel out of existence.
I built a prototype over the weekend, and it works surprisingly well:
On a randomly-selected YouTube channel (in this case Infinite Paradox Fanfic), the toolchain was able to identify the origin of half of the content. The raw output, after manual verification, turned out to be extremely accurate. The time taken to identify the source of a video was about 5 minutes, most of those were spent running Whisper, and the actual full-text-search query and Levenshtein analysis was less than 5 seconds.
The other videos probably came from fanfiction websites other than AO3, like fanfiction.net or Wattpad. As I do not have access to archives of those websites, I cannot identify the other ones, but they are almost certainly not original.
Armed with this fantastic proof-of-concept, Iâm officially declaring war against âWhat Ifâ videos. The mission statement of Project Copy-Knight will be the elimination of âWhat Ifâ videos based on the theft of AO3 content on YouTube.
I Need Your Help
I am acutely aware that I cannot accomplish this on my own. There are many moving parts in this system that simply cannot be completely automated â like the selection of YouTube channels to feed into the toolchain, the manual verification step to prevent false-positives being sent to authors, the reaching-out to authors who have comments disabled, etc, etc.
So, if you are interested in helping to defend fanworks, or just want to have a chat or ask about the technical details of the toolchain, please consider joining my Discord server. I could really use your help.
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See full blog article and acknowledgements here: https://echoekhi.com/2023/11/25/project-copy-knight/
I want to apologize in advance for sounding like I'm playing devil's advocate (I'm not I swear, what they're doing is really shitty) but how does this violate the DMCA?
What they are taking is something created under fair use, right? and the fan fiction itself isn't copyrighted? I'm just trying to understand how a mass of DMCA complaints about this wouldn't get thrown out.
Don't worry, copyright is confusing, a lot of the authors we contacted were similarly confused too.
Fanfiction is transformatively derivative from the original books or shows, which falls under the fair use clause and therefore does not infringe on the original copyright. At the same time, the fic's author holds copyright over their fanworks, so fanworks are actually copyrighted.
We've had many authors successfully submit DMCA notices and had the videos taken down. I don't think we've had a single report of failure so far.
If those video makers generate any monies from the stories it puts the stories at jeopardy of copyright infringement, the whole purpose of AO3 is protecting them from. Stories from FF, wattpad, etc donât have those protections.
"#sadly this is why I lock the fics to users only"
Setting your works to archive-users only does not prevent this sort of theft. We've detected quite a few videos stealing from works that are archive-locked.
