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Fanfic authors' mass takedowns knock AI-built AO3 clone offline

Original: Vibe Coded AO3 Clone Site Down After Fanfic Authors Buried It With 2,000 Takedown Notices in a Single Day https:// lemmy

A website built with AI coding tools to clone Archive of Our Own has gone offline after fanfiction authors flooded it with roughly 2,000 takedown notices in a single day. Writers mobilized to demand removal of their scraped works from the clone, which hosted fanfic copied from AO3 without permission. The episode has become a talking point about AI-generated sites republishing creative work and the legal power of organized authors.

Why now: Fanfiction communities organized a rapid collective copyright-enforcement action that actually took a site down, sparking debate over AI-built scrapers and authors' rights.

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