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Kyoshi, to Jinpa: Yeah, Sifu unalived many people, but ---

Hei-Ran, all red: I fucking killed them, Kyoshi!

Atuat and Tagaka, all red and visibly sweating: She fucking killed them, Kyoshi!

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They Do Not Exist (1974) by Mustafa Abu Ali (watch)

from PalestineCinema.com:

Salvaged from the ruins of Beirut after 1982, Abu Ali's early film has only recently been made available. Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. They Do Not Exist is a stylistically unique work which demonstrates the intersection between the political and the aesthetic. Now recognised as a cornerstone in the development of Palestinian cinema, the film only received its Palestine premiere in 2003, when a group of Palestinian artists "smuggled" the director to a makeshift cinema in his hometown of Jerusalem (into which Israel bars his entry). Abu Ali, who saw his film for the first time in 20 years at this clandestine event noted: "We used to say 'Art for the Struggle', now it's 'Struggle for the Art'"

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we were meant to live slowly!!!! we were meant to savor moments and feel unabashedly lazy and frolic and smell the flowers and laugh with our entire hearts and love with our entire souls!!!!! don’t ever feel guilty for resting!!!!!! don’t ever feel guilty for slowing down!!!!!! enjoying life shouldn’t be something you’re ashamed of

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Hey I don’t know if this is being talked about on Tumblr but thankfully the AO3 subreddit has a conversation going about this app that just went live.

TikTok user unravel.me.now has just launch an app (lore.fm) she is calling “Audible for AO3”. It’s an app that uses AI voices to read out fics.

🚨She is requiring any authors who do not want their fics to be on this app to OPT OUT by emailing team@lore.fm 🚨 🚨She has not given an actual template or how you’re supposed to prove you’re the author or said how her team will process this or how she will keep these requests secure🚨

I do not have this app. I haven’t seen anyone use it yet. According to Reddit users, unravel.me.now’s earlier TikToks stated she envisions the app being able to create libraries stored on that app and to have version of “Spotify wrapped”. That implies that eventually data collection must happen, if it’s not happening currently.

I don’t know the actual capabilities of this app. I don’t know the legalities. I do know that it personally feels like this app is trying to turn AO3 into a content generation source and I haven’t heard of the app allowing you to leave a comment or kudos or interact with the original work.

I’m just sad about this.

gachagon

I've seen this on tiktok and tbh I don't know what everyone is freaking out about? It's just to make the fanfic like an audiobook lol. She made it as an accessibility thing so people can listen to fics. I signed up as a beta tester to check it out, and there doesn't seem to be anything malicious. It's also not some AI scraping tool it just generates a voice to read the fic itself.

Not everything new is something scary and weird lol you guys need to calm down sometimes. and if you don't want your fics being idk read by a computers voice just opt out of it, but people are going to do it anyways with any other kind of screenreader? this is just an app that is specifically for fanfics so it's being marketed as one.

Just because you would personally have no real use for it, doesn't mean it's not something that just shouldn't exist. If it's not for you, that's totally fine, but a lot of other people are really excited about it for reasons that are conspicuously left out of this post like accessibility. (and personally I'd love to listen to my own written fics like an audio book as rereading just seems like it'd be too much work and time I don't have.)

creativitycache

Screenreaders are different than ai-generated audiobooks and function differently. Screenreaders also already exist in multiple forms.
Unlike screenreaders, it takes the user away from AO3 and thus treats AO3 like a content generation source instead of a community. There is no way for the users to comment/kudos/bookmark/or even give hits.
It stores the audiofile on both the users device and lore.fm's servers.
Upon closer reading of their TOS it seems there actually isn't a way for authors to even opt out without opening a whole legal can of worms. The app's legal team does not consider fanworks to fall under DMCA, and if there is a story that does (for example original fiction) they require you send in your Full Legal Name, Phone Number, and email address PLUS you have to prove your story is actually on the app and give them the exact location. Which under their current setup they display in the app store isn't actually possible. So you cannot send a DMCA under their TOS.

gachagon

This isn't an AI generated audio maker though, it genuinely is just a fancy screen reader. The creator of the tool already said that too on her tiktok because people are just spreading misinformation about the app.

And yeah I suppose you could say it's bad that it stores the fics, but it would have to in order to function anyways. And as far as I'm aware this isn't some big company taking it, its a few people who are also in fandom themselves.

chaosisbeauty23

That’s not correct but I don’t blame you for not knowing. These people have done a lot of work to hide their actual backgrounds and make this look organic and well intentioned. Their parent company already makes an AI Storytelling app and an AI audiobook app that uses nearly an identical layout. More info in my post here.

It makes me so mad because I desperately want more TTS tools and things that can help make work accessible to more readers, but this is just unethical and screams of tech bros looking to make a cash grab on fandoms.

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olderthannetfic

I already lock my works for a multitude of reasons, including solidarity with people who've been bullied into doing so. But regardless of the ethics of this particular app or opting out...

It should be transparently obvious to everyone that an app that does what this one is proposing to do is going to be backed by significant venture capital or something of the sort.

Of course it isn't just one fan doing this as a labor of love.

millermenapologist

I already have a queued up post about this on my blog (as well as having sent an ask to OTNF yesterday lol), but on r/ao3 people are beginning to post the screenshots of the replies this company is giving, and they're wildly unprofessional in their attitude.

Not only they try to guilt-trip people in the hope that this will allow them to steal their works, but they also falsely claim that what they are doing is perfectly legal. It is NOT. Yes, even if it's fanfic, you have rights that allow you to protect your work.

sources: 1 and 2

They also advise people to just lock their works if they're so against them being stolen, further pushing the fault of the theft onto the authors:

source

Furthermore, this entire affair is 100% illegal by European laws regarding third party businesses, can be struck down through DMCAs, and goes against the guidelines of both Google Play and the App Store, as they don't allow apps that promote NSFW materials, sexual content, and profanities.

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russia is currently executing civilians in ukrainian vovchansk. russian forces are taking civilians captive, executing people trying to escape captivity. they are also shelling the entire place with cluster munitions to kill any survivors left

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Childhood in Ukraine

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