I only got to know about the AI slop AO3 life website a few hours ago, and its already been taken down and replaced with an apology note, which ... fuck does this person get what they even did wrong?

Talking about the financial costs of running AI agents but like, damn, fucking hell you burned your personal savings on tokens, by your estimates you built infrastructure serving thousands of requests, the environmental costs of you using this "swarm" of agents?

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There were mentions on tumblr of peoples old fics and drafts being on this 'archive', by mother, have you considered everything publicly available isn't by people's consent? If you don't have access to the AO3 breaches, how sure are you, your AI agents dont???

And citing a user response poll on your own website, how many people knew those fics weren't there by choice.

For the worst part of it all, using AI to auto respond to takedown requests, and

'from a technical standpoint, this was really fun' what was fun for you particularly? telling the AI to generate a website? or getting attention from all over the world?

'It's not everyday you have everyone talking about the site you made', 'I did it all by myself and the time/urgency made me feel really cool'

I think that all quite speaks for itself, the idea these are tools is a boot to 'your' work, and wanting to help.

OTWArchive is open source software, want to feel good, contribute to that by hand, theres some good beginner issues you can happily help contribute to make a unique part of the web better for everyone, not just your web better for you.