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[seekingferret]

Fanfic authors a year ago: How dare someone claim to own the copyright on the Omegaverse? They're tropes that lots of writers have adapted, nobody owns them, anybody who wants to can write Omegaverse!

Fanfic authors today: How dare AI write Omegaverse! We own that!

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[morbane]

I am fascinated by this window into the very different discussions your spaces are having on AI - I haven't seen the latter at all. Is there more context to it?

[seekingferret]

https://www.wired.com/story/fanfiction-omegaverse-sex-trope-artificial-intelligence-knotting/

But also, like, the comments on recent OTW posts that are very, very angry that OTW is anything other than entirely outraged to learn that the AO3 has been used as part of AI training sets https://www.transformativeworks.org/ai-and-data-scraping-on-the-archive/

[chestnut_pod]

Well, I see the commonality -- the potential for monetization after something being developed in a space with strong (though lbr, weakening) norms around non-monetization.

[lokifan]

Yeah, that's my thought. Plus, AI isn't a person wanting to write in a shared universe or use a set of tropes.