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The AO3 Tag of the Day is: That sudden exhale from the nose that we all pretend is equivalent to a belly laugh for some reason

Pandemic Gotham is pretty much the same as regular Gotham, only instead of just carrying our masks around, we wear them full time! Oh, and the bridges are down again... But compared to the case numbers in Metropolis, it's a riot! #onlycitywithnocases

Edit: I should not have used the word riot, apparently it gave the Joker an idea. #oops #sorrybatfamily

my journey from a DC animated fan to a DC comic reader so far has been pretty much "oh cool I like this" -> "WHAT" -> "ok ok so it was a bad take before I need to research more" -> "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT'S JUST FANON" -> "So I need to pay more attention to the writers' names" -> "I'm still trapped in batfamily hell when do I get more time for arrowfamily hell" -> "where the fuck do I start with the laterns" -> "cool cool I think I get it now" -> "NO I'M NOT GETTING SHIT" -> "I only had Jason Todd for half a year but if he died again I would kill everyone in DC and then myself"

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The AO3 Tag of the Day is: As long as you don’t leave the carcass on my doorstep

This is a callout post.

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FYI, I have also locked all my fanfics down to registered users only because of the AI scraping on AO3. I'm one of many fan creators doing this right now and I know it stinks for users without an AO3 account, but it's the only option writers have available to us at the moment to stop our work from being scraped and stolen.

If this makes you mad, the Federal Register is currently open to comments on AI accountability until June 12th, 2023.

It only takes a second to leave a comment to ask for legislation that works used in AI creations or training MUST secure the express consent of the original creator before they can be used. If we can get protections for artists, writers, musicians and everyone who creates that their work cannot be used in AI without their permission, we can go back to making fanworks freely available without fear of them being misused. Until then, we're stuck playing defense until the courts catch up.

(If you're a fan creator looking to do this as well, AO3 has a tool to let you do all your fics at the same time in seconds. On your dashboard, go to Edit Works and you'll be able to change the status on everything at once.)

If you missed the context, AO3 recently found that the archive was scraped for use in AI services like ChatGPT and Sudowrite. While they put in protections in December 2022 to try to stop it from happening in the future, it's not foolproof and there is nothing they can do about works already swiped prior to that date. The archive is recommending fan creators restrict their works to registered users only to prevent against additional large scale scraping in the future.

same. i actually had them last year when i was still in school at these exact times, now i have them a quarter hour later.

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