In the world of the book on the Internet on the Internet, who are inspired by their stories inspired by their films, their favorite games, and their participation for free, there are unannounced behavior symbols. Among the most important of them: Never receive money for your share, and never steal the actions of others.
It is logical, then, that the fan writers were among the first creators Raising About their work in learning language models that operate obstetric artificial intelligence without knowing or permission. But their efforts to stop the infringement of artificial intelligence in the fans’ spaces is an arduous battle.
The last Salvo came in early April, when the user is NYUZYOU Increase 12.6 million pastries from our online warehouse archive (AO3) and carried the data collection to Huging Face, a company that hosts Open Source International Amnesty International models and programs.
NYUZYOU’s download was discovered quickly by the Reddit community R/ao3Where hundreds of users have spread angry reactions. Tumblr account, Ao3scrapeesearchThe search engine allowed the authors to search for their user names and know if their work was ignored by NYUZYOU.
“This takes time, effort, heart, and spirit, and you do it in a society.”
Fansly writers flooded the comments section of the embracing data collection, entering the arguments with artificial intelligence defenders. Dcchili He defended NYUZYOU, claiming that it does not matter because the big technological crawling robots have already scraped the archive several times. raraaaves He argued that “crawling” depends on the writers who fueled the lack of fighting when their work and creativity are exploited.
When Nikki, a star war fan who passes The endless On the Internet, she wrote her name in the search engine, and she saw that more than 70 of her photos were scraped. But one jumped. It was a collective article She participated in her authorship with 11 other books to raise awareness about the threat of artificial intelligence to Fandom and download it to AO3. It did not escape the paradox.
Nikki is often written by FanFICTION about Reylo, romantic association (or “ship”) of Rey and Kylo Ren characters from Star Wars A triple supplement. Reylo Fandom coherent and abundant production, with more than 30,000 Reylo stories published on AO3. About half of them have been appointed in Sharia Star Wars The universe is from light swords and space adventures, but the other half occurs in alternative universes and exploring everything from romance in the coffee store and drama in the workplace to the Middle Ages and fictional kingdoms. One in particular Beloved fic In The Fandom is located in 1994 and is reformulated by Kylo Ren in the role of Kyril, the head of the mafia in Russia after the Soviet Union. Fandom produced a book like Ali Hazlood and Thea Guzon, who made a jump from FanFic to become very successful and authors of the published romance.
For Nikki, Reylo Fandom presented a new sense of belonging. I found a house in the support community of writers and readers and enjoyed freedom to write what you want.
“Vandum is largely a gift economy. We are only here to enjoy and do things from good in our heart. Giving things to each other and making work in society,” says Nikki.
This feeling is repeated by many others in the Reylo community, including EM, which is written under the name of the pen Okapijones. EM fell in love with the characters Rey and Kylo Ren because they represent enemies of light / dark models that I mentioned with them beauty and the beast and pride and prejudice. But she hated the way her story ended in Star Wars Triple continuation and went in search of other fans who want a different end.
“I have changed my life. I have met some of the best friends I faced through FIC and through the FanFICTION,” says EM. “There are no rules, there are no editors. It is a pure creative stadium, and this will generate innovation. Some of the most creative stories that I have ever read, some of the most fierce stories, are fans. This excites me as a creator, because you can only do what you want.”
“This takes time, effort, heart and spirit, and you do it in a society,” says Nikki. “Then you tell me that you will only go to two seconds on a screen. I was like, who asked this? This is total.”
In 2023 it came Sudowrite’s Story engine, partially supported by Chatgpt Openai. Nikki recalls watching a video about the new AI program “Assistant”, which allows users to enter details about letters, impose points and create a full novel. She was so horrific that she made her cry. Nikki, who works for a software company, had already seen a shift in the workplace towards integrating artificial intelligence. But she did not imagine that her hobby would also be affected by her.
“Trying to hit these things, this may be the best thing one can do now.”
Later that year, the spread of very specific sexual terminology related to the benefits of the wolf in omegays in Sudorit appeared, revealing that you likely seen. Trained On fanfic without the authors’ knowledge.
Since then, Nikki and many others have been defending artificial intelligence in all its forms in Fandom, including the use of artificial intelligence to create FanFic or Fanart.
“It is a theft in its essence. There is no moral use of something based on stolen labor,” says Nikki. Although it is against Genai in principle because of its dependence on the data taken without approval, it says it is separated from the Fandom of Free Exchange standards.
“I did that because I love those characters, because I wanted to play in this sand box, because I also wanted people who love them to read them. It is a gift.” M. says. “They stole it without my permission.”
But over the past few years, the fans writers say there have been many examples of entrepreneurs at Genai who are trying to benefit from their work-like people like Clev and Witzmann, CEO of Text to-Voice App Beeking, who found that they have seized thousands of Fics from AO3 and downloaded them to Wordstream, which is a website linked By applying it to its application. (He quickly removed that after the fans pushed on social media.) Then there was Lore.fm, a text application to WishROLL Inc, who marketed himself on Tiktok as “hearing AO3”. The application was announced in May 2024, but it was later withdrawn after the fans’ recovery.
“It is like a bit of beating. Every time you turn, there, like another group, is trying to steal the shit,” Nikki says.
It may seem strange to hear such strong feelings from a writer used, like most admirers, intellectual property protected by copyrights such as the “sand box” to compensate for their own stories. But Fanworks defenders say they are “transformative”, which means that “the fans’ employee holds the rights of their own content, such as any author, professional artist or other creator,” according to AO3. This is completely different from what LLM is doing when, for example, generates a novel based on claims. AI cannot repeat the creative human process represented in the “transformation”, which includes the invention and integration of new ideas. LLMS cannot modify the content and renew the content already.
Unlike Books created by artificial intelligence immersed the AmazonOne of the principles of default is that the book does not make any profit from their work.
This did not prevent Amnesty International to infiltrate the Vandum in other controversial ways. Some readers, who are eager to obtain new updates for their favorite institutions Download it in ChatGPT To generate new chapters, a lot to the panic of some authors. Some have taken their stories, which requires readers to get an AO3 account to access or delete them from the Internet completely.
In the case of NYUZOU, fans, online coordination, made notifications to the bottom under the DMCA, and the IOS, which is non -profit that managed AO3, and also provided a removal process. On April 9, embrace the face embracing the data set. OTW responded to users’ concerns about the pastries that are equipped at the Board of Directors meeting on April 26, saying: “We have added a Cloudflare tool to prevent the scraping of artificial intelligence and other robots. This helps a lot but it is not perfect. However, it will have more powerful solutions to some of our users, especially those who use old devices.”
NYUZOU remained a non -Neps, as it provided meters and re -uploaded the data set to the hosted sites in Russia and China, which is much less respond to DMCA complaints. I called before freedom Through an account of a telegram linked to the definition file of his embrace, Nyuzou said he was a 18 -year -old student and a “not interested in metal” and carried the data set for “legitimate search purposes”.
“My goal was to support society’s research in areas such as moderation in content, control tools, recommendation systems, and preserving the archive,” wrote Nyuzou via Telegram. “I think a lot of disagreement comes from a misunderstanding about the reason for these data groups. This was never about creating Chatbots or large language models for commercial use.”
Founded in 2016 by French entrepreneurs, Huging Face began building chat keys for teenagers. Since then, the company has expanded to host open source models with the declared goal of “adding a democratic character to artificial intelligence” by making the development of machine learning within the reach of the audience.
“Our goal is to enable each company in the world to build its artificial intelligence,” said Jeff Body, President of Face’s Face, for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in February. But the embraced face is deeply linked to large companies. In addition to its continuous cooperation with AWS, IBM has invested 235 million dollars In the face of embrace in 2023 and announced that it was cooperating with the company on Watsonx, the IBM gynecological platform.
Nyuzou said he was surprised by the aggressive OTW reaction to the data set, “I was hoping for dialogue on how research data groups complied with memorization objectives.”
Alex Hanna, Director of Research at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence Research, and author of the book “This really deceptive matter”. Artificial Intelligence Males: How to fight noise in large technology and create the future that we want. It is skeptical about the idea that any data set uploaded to the embrace will not be used to the end to LLMS training. “Why do you have a large segment of the non -structured data available on the web if not to train the language model?”
Although individual intercourse such as Nyuzou is a little good in the wider economy in Genai, which is dominated by one billion dollars like Openai, Hanna says it is still on sites like AO3 to protect the work of its users strongly. As for the fans of the themselves, it believes that the Nikki-A-Mole strategy is the way to go. “Trying to hit these things, this may be the best thing one can do now,” Hanna says.
Nikki and EM, fans writers, had a more heated response to Nyuzou’s interpretation of the abrasion.
“The curse on you, my shout,” says M. “We are doing free to love the game and do not benefit from it – unlike creating a society, gaining practice for our craft and creating content for the characters and stories that we love. It is stolen to feed things that have greater effects.”
Nikki says she is determined to continue to retract artificial intelligence in Fandom spaces.
“I’m not going to search for a battle,” she says. “But when people come to us in a battle, I will fight.”
