Content Scraping.

Not something I really wanted to bring attention to, but I’d like the person who is doing it to know that I’m aware.

I’ve known about my content being scraped and uploaded to that website for many months now, but I chose to ignore it at the time because it appeared to have stopped updating. Additionally, I didn’t want to draw any attention to the situation.

However, I’m aware that new content has been uploaded very recently.

There are several reasons why someone should avoid doing this, not just for ethical reasons, but also security ones. For example, the site requires your session ID cookie to scrape content. It wouldn’t surprise me if they retained that information, leaving you exposed to potential session hijacking. (How do you think they make money? Selling off a few tokens and IDs, perhaps?) Just something to consider; I can’t say for sure that’s true, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

That aside, scraping content in this way violates Patreon’s Terms of Service, and I imagine it wouldn’t be too difficult to figure out who is doing so. By cross-referencing subscription dates with the timestamps of uploaded posts, combined with the fact that the scraping process likely isn’t “quiet” (e.g., logging all outgoing requests), it seems plausible to track with ease.

I understand many of the arguments surrounding piracy, and I don’t want to come across as stingy . “It’s just AI hentai.” Yes, it might seem trivial to some, but there’s far more going on under the hood than meets the eye. Countless hours go into fine-tuning models, paying for datasets, creating custom images for training, testing, re-training, and so on. I do it because I enjoy the technology—it fascinates me—and it allows myself and others to create media in ways that were once unattainable.

While it may not feel like you’re stealing directly from me, it does feel like you’re taking from the people who subscribe or have subscribed to support my work.

This will be my first and last post about this, and I'm not sure what else to say, so I’ll leave it here. If this becomes a recurring issue, I can’t promise I won’t take further action.

But that’s that. Take care