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

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Briefings

An AI-powered fanfiction aggregator site 'ao3.life' went down after creator Ganesh received over 2,000 takedown requests from AO3 authors in a single day. The site scraped AO3 works, offered paid audiobooks, and claimed to pay 91% of profits to authors. The outage occurred after the original AO3 repository was down, leaving authors unable to lock their works. Ganesh apologized for the project and stated he intended no harm to authors.

Key points

• The site 'ao3.life' was down after creator Ganesh received over 2,000 takedown requests from AO3 authors in a single day.
• The site offered paid audiobooks and claimed to pay 91% of profits to authors, though authors could not access their works due to the outage.

Context

AO3.life scraped works from the original AO3 repository, which was down for weeks. The site offered paid audiobooks and claimed to pay 91% of profits to authors. The outage occurred after the original AO3 repository was down, leaving authors unable to lock their works.

Limitations

Evidence covers a single day of takedowns and site outage. Some author responses indicate they used legal emails despite the site being down. Exact number of unique users and terabytes of bandwidth are not fully quantified in the text.

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