How To 'Lock' Your Fics On Ao3

How to 'Lock' Your Fics on Ao3

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How To 'Lock' Your Fics On Ao3

We recently had a problem with someone scraping Ao3 works for their data set and/or AI training model.

Obviously, this is absolutely out of line, but there's little to no regulation AI right now & not much we can do to defend ourselves from theft besides filing DMCA reports & restricting access to only Archive Users on Ao3 [aka Locking], which I will show how to do below.

You can find the Tumblr post HERE.

Thank you sincerely to the community on Reddit & that Tumblr user for spreading the word.

How To 'Lock' Your Fics On Ao3

Locking A New Work:

Open Ao3, create your new work

From there, scroll down to Privacy, look for this section:

How To 'Lock' Your Fics On Ao3

3. Select 'Only show your work to registered users'.

How To 'Lock' Your Fics On Ao3

Locking An Existing Work:

Open your Dashboard

Locate the Work you want to lock, open it

Right next to the 'Add Chapter' button in the top left corner, you will see 'Edit'. Open that.

Scroll down to Privacy, just like above

Toggle 'Only show your work to registered users' on!

How To 'Lock' Your Fics On Ao3

P.S. hi :] -R

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