what the actual fuck is this. the other comment is right.

In creating this dataset, you are essentially re-uploading the entire contents of Ao3 to another website.

The official Ao3 terms of service state the following: "AO3 maintains that fanworks are transformative and that a fanwork's creator owns the rights to the expressions in their work that are unique to them. A fanwork creator holds the rights to their own content, just the same as any professional author, artist, or other creator." (https://archiveofourown.org/tos_faq#fanwork_copyright).

I am not a part of the generative AI community, but I understand this project may have taken you a long time to complete. I understand you may be proud of your accomplishment. I don't know who you are. I don't know what circumstances led you to compile this data. I have no grounds on which to judge your character, nor will I try to. I only ask you take note of the legal implications of this dataset, and act accordingly.

To the people threatening violence, I understand your frustration but this is not the way to be taken seriously.

I speak for no one but myself and I have linked my own data removal request here: https://huggingface.co./datasets/nyuuzyou/archiveofourown/discussions/135.

Sending threats to the uploader is not the way to go, but what the uploader did is both legally questionable and disgusting.

If any other NLP and ML engineers are reading this and are siding with the uploader... please take a good look at your life choices. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. This isn't some heroic act of open-source principles or “sticking it to the man”; it's punching down. You're in one of the cushiest, best-paid professions, you have everything, and you still want more.

Sad that people lack creativity and joy so much they think stealing is okay

You’re awful and I have all the time in the world. Ao3 is a site we donate to so we can have a place we legally own our fic. Take this down or we will keep DMCA ing you.

wtf is wrong with u stop stealing other peoples shit