Archive of Our Own writers are making their accounts private to prevent their fanfiction from being used to train AI models.
Article by TechCrunch: Writers on the fan fiction platform AO3 are increasingly locking access to their stories for non-registered users in order to avoid the crawlers of AI companies scrapping the text for training of their AI models.
This always seems so silly. As if their fanfic is going to make some significant change to the model or affect them in any way at all.
People reacting like this just seems like uneducated hysteria and drama. People so desperate to be victims they blow out of proportion things that don't even affect them.