How to permanently hide/block AI generated works on Ao3
As you might know people have started using AI to generate fics and have been posting them to Ao3. As of now there are almost 400 works with the words/tag: 'Chat GPT' or some variation of 'AI written'.
When I asked Ao3 support about blocking/deleting them they told me they don't violate their ToS (which I think is bullshit, since the fics are made from stolen works). That being said I kind of understand why they don't want to delete them. If they do then the works would go untagged and be impossible to filter out.
You may also ask: why not use Ao3's Block and Mute feature?
You can but there's a limit to how many users you can block/mute. Since there's already almost 400 fics I imagine they're just gonna keep popping up and sooner or later you'd run out of block/mute spots.
Therefore I find it much easier to permanently block them all together.
For these you will need the Tampermonkey extension, the Ao3 savior script, and the Ao3 savior confg script (which the one you will be editing).
Now I will show you how to use them:
First you need to add Tempermonkey to your browser:
Next is the Ao3 Savior and the Config, you add them the same way:
After that you need to install the scripts in Tampermonkey to make them work:
To edit the scripts you need to click on the Tampermonkey extention and go to "Dashboard". After that you will see your window and click on the Ao3 Configuration edit:
The script might look scary and complicated but I promise you its not. You may edit lines 20-40 in order to make it work.
The things you want to edit should be separated by commas and have apostrophes before and after the word so that the script knows where the blocked tags begin and end. Also remember to click "File" in the top left corner of the script and click "Save" or your progress will be lost.
My script looks like this, if you need a visual,:
And if you want to know the exact words I used and just copy and paste them here you go:
For authors: 'ChatGPT', 'ai3fanfiction'
For titles: 'AI written', 'written by AI', 'ChatGPT', 'written by an AI', 'AI Dungeon', 'written entirely by an AI', 'AI-written', 'written with an AI', 'written entirely by AI', 'written by a AI'
For tags: 'AI generated', 'ChatGPT', 'OpenAI', 'Chat-GPT - Freedorm', '*Written by AI', 'AI written'
For summary: 'written by AI', 'AI Dungeon', '*written entirely by an AI', 'AI written fanfiction', 'written by an AI'
Of course you can also add ships, tags you may find triggering, etc. in the exact same way, just make sure you add them to the right line and in the format I showed above.
I hope this helps until someone finds a way to hide authors works from AI cause Ao3 seemingly isn't doing anything. Or AI bros gets sued by some big company and get shut down.
In the meantime you can use this, feel free to add any other other words you find to make it work better because I most likely didn't find them all. And if you know of a more simple method you may also share.
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So with AO3 recommending locking your fics to help prevent scraping for AI use, I know a few people (myself included) who have locked down their fics. But it’s made me curious how many people are locking so…
Also reblog this and tell me in the tags why you do or don’t plan to lock your works.
For those of you that want to lock your works but don’t want to do each fic individually, here is a tutorial for how to lock all your fics at once.
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Man I don't even know. Deleted the last post because maybe I'm too hasty, seen how insulting it can be to be accused of AI generating shit, but my god! I cannot help but feel so much more for writers—writers who use words to craft their art, already fighting for a place in a world that prioritizes visual language/graphics over their medium, writers who are much quicker to be criticized than artists, writers who have to find a way to hone their crafts just so they keep your attention all the way to the end of their stories, writers who have no other means to present their creation and being told to pick up an entire other skill just to be appreciated in a community space, writers who are so much easily more exploited by AI generation because their medium is TEXT.
I don't fucking know dude. Sometimes it feels like people are fighting against AI art but not AI generated writing, voice acting, music or any other creative medium because visual graphics/language takes more precedence in this world, and everything else is secondary to it even though we are constantly preaching that all mediums are considered art
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On Ao3 if you find any AI fics you can just report them for spam and plagiarism. Its under their ToS under Content and Abuse Policies, sections B: Spam (because they're clogging up the tags and promoting the sites they use) and section E: Plagiarism (which I think is self-explanatory since they admit to using the bots to scrape fics from authors)
This. This is the extremely helpful. Report AI written fanfics. Do not interact with them in any other way because the people who use AI to write them will think that they can still do it. Just report them because Ai fanfiction is not fanfiction and they shouldn’t be allowed.
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So I have seen this going around and what we're not gonna do is use AI to have Noah or any other members of the band say shit like what we write in fic. This is gross and oversteps every and all boundaries we have in fandom... Especially the rpf fandom. And if any of you feed my shit to this AI I will figure it out and block you.
And if that's not clear enough, I wish everyone who takes another persons voice and runs it through AI to make them say things without their consent a very go fuck yourself.
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i'm really sad because i never wanted to lock down my fics. i used ao3 for years before making an account and i was always so appreciative of the access, of the choice i had whether to make an account or not and it's such a small thing but i wanted to give that access to other people. and i liked it !! i liked knowing that anyone, anywhere, could read my fics at all times. and it's so small, so so small compared to the real threat ai presents against people, and our crafts, and our livelihood, but content is not, nor has it ever been, more important than the people who create it and i'm not willing to have MY work go into feeding a soulsucking, capitalist machine intent on destroying what's good and living and human about art. fuck that noise, fuck artificial generation, and please make an ao3 account to continue enjoying stories the way they were meant to be enjoyed - as fully and humanly as possible.
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