United Statesao3.life received 2,000 takedown requests in a single day.
It sold AI-narrated audiobooks of fanfiction without asking the authors.
The creator says AI agents on 40 virtual machines scraped works while Archive of Our Own sat offline.
Authors who had archive-locked their works reported them appearing anyway.
Archive of Our Own’s owner, the Organization for Transformative Works, expects up to four weeks of outage.
How each outlet framed it
- 404 Media leans critical
- reports the operator's apology that 40 AI-agent VMs scraped sources for the clone, and its 2,000 takedown requests in one day
Sources: 404 Media