Vibe Coded AO3 Clone Site Down After Fanfic Authors Buried It With 2,000 Takedown Notices in a Single Day
2026-11-03 · 404 Media
A 'vibe coded' clone of Archive of Our Own scraped thousands of fanfics and turned them into audiobooks for sale — without bothering to ask the authors who wrote them. The fanfic community responded with the fury of a thousand slow-burn enemies-to-lovers fics, burying the site under 2,000 takedown notices in a single day. Turns out AI-assisted theft at scale still can't survive an organized fandom.