Agreed. And I know the point was brought up that Google will ai scrape the fics, but most ff writers write in Google docs anyway. So, that ship has already sailed for many. And there was the ai scraping problem already on AO3. AO3 is a public archive. It's like getting angry +
this current fic discourse is so redundant in my eyes. as a writer, we know our work has 100% chance of being archived as soon as it's published. and as a reader, you should respect the author enough to take it down when they ask you to. seems like common sense but apparently not