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PSA: ICYMI, some technobro grabbed 25K books and fed them to an AI to do 'literary analysis' and when called out did the faux, "but it's a public service, you should be honored" then backtracking with, "email me if you want me to pull your book" and now escalating to, "I'm taking the whole site down because you are all ungrateful idiots" (paraphrasing)

See thread:
https://twitter.com/QueenOfRats/status/1688606310743552002

He tried La Nora!

@romancelandia
#IndieAuthors #Prosecraft

This is good advice:
https://mastodon.social/@Celeste_pewter/110850216180049461

Alex Brown 🐀 (they/them) on Twitter

“I know copyright law is complicated, but "email me to have your stolen work removed from our monetized site" will not protect you in court. That's not how this works. Ask anyone who remembers Napster. Hell, ask a single archivist.”

Twitter
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@romancelandia

Here's the link to the weird ass and self-serving "you are mean to me" blog post; keep in mind that he may have taken #Prosecraft down, but he *still has the data* that he fed to whatever AI he was using.

This isn't over just because the website is offline right now.

#IndieAuthors

https://blog.shaxpir.com/taking-down-prosecraft-io-37e189797121

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@romancelandia
#IndieAuthors

Report the theft if #Prosecraft listed your books.
https://www.iprcenter.gov/referral/report-ip-theft-form

Link mentioned in the image:
https://blog.shaxpir.com/top-ten-reasons-to-use-shaxpir-for-nanowrimo-this-year-9d42fe6df1b5

Report IP Theft

This form is used to report violations of intellectual property rights, including counterfeiting Report IP Theft and piracy, to the National IPR Coordination Center.

Show threadMarie BrennanAug 7, 2023
@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia Given that the site's analysis thinks "that's" is a helping verb and the emotional arc of a story can be charted by counting words like "grasses" and "feed," the utility on offer there was marginal at best. No great loss . . .
Show threadazteclady has movedAug 7, 2023
@swan_tower A net gain, in fact.
Show threadDarryl MottAug 7, 2023
@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia Still curious what publisher's legal team put the fear of god into the asshole. Turns out that copyright law isn't opt-in.
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@Abstruse I think it was more the literal tsunami of authors going after him while tagging their publishers.

The pile on was fast and furious.

Show threadSteven Saus [he/him]Aug 7, 2023

@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia

He's apparently taken it down now, as of an hour-old Medium post.

https://blog.shaxpir.com/taking-down-prosecraft-io-37e189797121

Show threadT. Thorn Coyle they/themAug 7, 2023
@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia Never. Try. Nora.
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@thorncoyle "It's a truth universally accepted that any who try Nora come to regret it quick, fast, and in a hurry"--Ancient Romancelandia Proverb

@romancelandia

Show threadT. Thorn Coyle they/themAug 7, 2023
@romancelandia @herhandsmyhands 😂
Show threadjnyroseAug 8, 2023
@herhandsmyhands @thorncoyle @romancelandia for lo, she has an actual sword. And oh, she is not afraid to use it to point her lawyers at you.
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@jnyrose @thorncoyle FACT
Show threadjnyroseAug 8, 2023
@herhandsmyhands @thorncoyle if he also got Courtney Milan he will get walloped in court AND on social media.
Show threadSarahAug 8, 2023
@thorncoyle @herhandsmyhands AMEN
Show threadEH LuptonAug 7, 2023
@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia There are academics who practice in the "digital humanities" who do this kind of proximity analysis on texts (often Shakespeare). But they do it better (still kind of dull, but they at least know what passive voice is...and what copyright is...). This smacks of "I want to write a book but I don't like to read them" or in this case, do even the smallest amount of research in his field...
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@pretensesoup He was absolutely looking for ways of monetize other peoples' work with the least possible effort, and with zero understanding of the 'product' he wanted to monetize.
Show threadEH LuptonAug 7, 2023
@herhandsmyhands Yeah. Dude is in for a world of hurt, I'm thinkin'.
Show threadEH LuptonAug 7, 2023
@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia (Sorry to anyone who is a Digital Humanities scholar. I sat through some scarring lectures in grad school. I'm sure the field has come a long way since then.)
Show threadHen Gymro Heb WladAug 8, 2023

@herhandsmyhands @romancelandia I don't understand why he had to steal people's work. Project Gutenberg has over 70,000 texts that are out of copyright, from the Bible to Dickens.

https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.

Project Gutenberg
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@hengymrohebwlad
#Prosecraft did the harvesting, purportedly for "literary analysis"; meanwhile, those texts were used to "train" an AI service (shaxpir) to produce writing "in the style of your favorite author".

That's why him taking prosecraft offline doesn't do much for the intellectual property theft if he still has the data.

It's in the thread.

@romancelandia