3 November 2026

AO3 clone with AI-read fan fiction vanished after a day - authors sent over 2,000 takedown requests

The site ao3.life, where someone posted fan fiction copied from Archive of Our Own and sold it as AI-narrated audiobooks, disappeared from the web after roughly a day, 404 Media reports. Its creator, a self-described 17-year-old from India, wrote in an apology that authors had sent him more than 2,000 takedown requests. He also said the site drew 126,592 users during that time and that he sold 11 audiobooks. He collected the texts using AI agents and launched the copy when the original AO3 went offline after a security incident.

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