Ripped off, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this...

[Member389]

So one of my readers read one of my stories and notified me that it's posted as an AI generated Youtube video.
I checked and entire paragraphs with only a few words, and character names, have been changed. The story was transcribed to audio and posted with an AI generated image to illustrate it. Has anyone else run into this?
The Youtube account is called @SilkenSecretsStories The account is a week old and has 11 stories posted.
I should be but I'm not flattered that it has the 2nd highest number of views at over 3500 in a week. I assume that just means mine was the 2nd story they stole.
I'd like to know if any of you found your work there. I've requested a copyright takedown but I'm not sure that Google will care that I posted it elsewhere in 2017 almost to the word.

I could chew steel and shit nails right now.

If it wasn't obvious, I hate AI more than anything for this very reason. It's theft, not creativity.

 

[iwatchus]

You should read the thread https://forum.literotica.com/thread...racking-page-erotica-podcast-network.1628736/

 

[Cagivagurl]

Having your work stolen and posted on You Tube is a rite of passage for writers here in Lit world.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Having your work stolen and posted on You Tube is a rite of passage for writers here in Lit world.

I feel bad. I've only found my stories posted on some Japanese site. What can I do to get plagiarized on YouTube?

 

[WCSGarland]

I feel bad. I've only found my stories posted on some Japanese site. What can I do to get plagiarized on YouTube?

I haven't check, but I'm assuming I probably need to see about getting plagiarized on YouTube also.

 

[WittyUserName]

Having your work stolen and posted on You Tube is a rite of passage for writers here in Lit world.

Mine have been posted on Facebook. I still haven't had mine on YouTube yet, as far as I know. Maybe someday!

 

[Cagivagurl]

You might be surprised.
I didn't know until a fan notified me.
I don't listen to those channels, so you might be in the same boat.
Blissfully unaware.

 

[ronde]

It happened to me. You'll have to create an account on Youtube, but once you do you can file a request to have your story removed. It only took Youtube two days to delete mine.

 

[WCSGarland]

Yeah, but how do you get plagiarized if you're not a popular author?

 

[Rustyoznail]

Yeah, but how do you get plagiarized if you're not a popular author?

Popularity doesn't seem to be a factor. It's the category.

 

[WCSGarland]

Popularity doesn't seem to be a factor. It's the category.

Now see? None of that was mentioned before... What category do I need to write in order to be plagiarized?

 

[StillStunned]

Now see? None of that was mentioned before... What category do I need to write in order to be plagiarized?

LW, from what I've seen.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

LW, from what I've seen.

Which? The ones the BTW crowd like or the ones they hate?

 

[WCSGarland]

I write LW... mine are hated by the BTW/BTB crowd.

 

[StillStunned]

Which? The ones the BTW crowd like or the ones they hate?

That goes beyond the extent of my knowledge of the videos, and my knowledge of and interest in LW.

 

[MetaBob]

So one of my readers read one of my stories and notified me that it's posted as an AI generated Youtube video.
I checked and entire paragraphs with only a few words, and character names, have been changed. The story was transcribed to audio and posted with an AI generated image to illustrate it. Has anyone else run into this?
The Youtube account is called @SilkenSecretsStories The account is a week old and has 11 stories posted.
I should be but I'm not flattered that it has the 2nd highest number of views at over 3500 in a week. I assume that just means mine was the 2nd story they stole.
I'd like to know if any of you found your work there. I've requested a copyright takedown but I'm not sure that Google will care that I posted it elsewhere in 2017 almost to the word.

I could chew steel and shit nails right now.

If it wasn't obvious, I hate AI more than anything for this very reason. It's theft, not creativity.

I appended details to the comment I left on your story. Yes, this has happened to other Lit authors, at least 60 others from the person(s) who started this ripoff Youtube channel alone. I provided details. Enough Lit authors sent copyright violation notifications to Youtube that YT eventually shut down the channel entirely. Another channel started up from the same source immediately. That channel is the one you're dealing with now.

Yours was the 8th of 9 stories pirated by this new YT channel since it started 8 days ago, after the old channel was shut down by enough copyright violation claims from Literotica authors.

Here's one of the links I attached to your original (plagiarized!) story, in case you haven't seen it yet, cross-referencing original Literotica stories with the Youtube videos plagiarized from them: https://forum.literotica.com/thread...rotica-podcast-network.1628736/post-101160827

I loved your story, by the way.

 

[MetaBob]

Having your work stolen and posted on You Tube is a rite of passage for writers here in Lit world.

Perhaps true, but not really helpful. An Author's Hangout is absolutely the right place to seek advice from other authors that is not the equivalent of "get over it."

 

[MetaBob]

Now see? None of that was mentioned before... What category do I need to write in order to be plagiarized?

To be plagiarized by this plagiarist, write a highly rated story on LW, Romance, or Mature. A plagiarized Romance story will probably get more views on Youtube before the pirate YT channel gets taken offline.

 

[Cagivagurl]

Perhaps true, but not really helpful. An Author's Hangout is absolutely the right place to seek advice from other authors that is not the equivalent of "get over it."

Guess you can infer whatever you want...
Not what i said but...

 

[lovecraft68]

Years ago the issue was a story being stolen and ending up on some malware riddled fly by night sex site, now its AI voices reading on You Tube.

That's progress for you.

You can get YT to pull it, but these channels are like a hydra, every story you get taken down a half dozen more are there. There are so many of these channels that you see on the sidebar if you watch one of these that I wonder if this is one entity that created a ton of accounts or there are that many doing it.

I also wonder what the point is? None of these seem to be anywhere big enough to monetize.

 

[MetaBob]

Years ago the issue was a story being stolen and ending up on some malware riddled fly by night sex site, now its AI voices reading on You Tube.

I imagine your "years ago" scenario remains at issue, just not the issue we're dealing with in this thread.

You can get YT to pull it, but these channels are like a hydra, every story you get taken down a half dozen more are there. There are so many of these channels that you see on the sidebar if you watch one of these that I wonder if this is one entity that created a ton of accounts or there are that many doing it.

Yeah, you said that before enough Literotica authors submitted copyright violation claims to shut down the previous channel, that had 11K subscribers and ~100 videos plagiarizing at least 60 Literotica stories written by at least 50 Literotica authors. All of those plagiarized videos have now been permanently taken down.

It's not about shutting down videos one by one, it's about shutting down enough videos within a certain time period (3 videos in a month) to shut down that video plus every other video that Youtube channel has plagiarized:

Back in the day, the site would try to get these things pulled down, but its far to pervasive now for them to get tangled up in it, so everyone is on their own.

The point is, everyone is NOT on their own. We work together, we can stop this, or at least slow it down. Yeah it might feel like playing whack-a-mole, but that's how the system works, and as we have seen from this thread and others in AH, we have been and will continue to be successful.

I also wonder what the point is? None of these seem to be anywhere big enough to monetize.

In order to monetize a Youtube channel, you need at least 1,000 subscribers. This new pirate channel exceeded that number immediately:
https://www.tubebuddy.com/blog/youtube-monetization-requirements/

Edit: By the way, I've searched Literotica for some stories that have been turned into videos by other Youtube channels, and have come up empty every time. Some seem to have been written by an AI: plodding, predictable, and repetitive with familiar phrasing (ex: "maybe just maybe"). The stories in the current YT channel at issue are clearly better, as well they should be: they are highly rated stories stolen from where they've been posted on Literotica. If I find another pirate channel, I will share that one here, too. I urge others to do the same.

 

[lovecraft68]

In order to monetize a Youtube channel, you need at least 1,000 subscribers. This new pirate channel exceeded that number immediately:
https://www.tubebuddy.com/blog/youtube-monetization-requirements/

That's a lot of incels. Then again compared to how many subs those "Alpha Male" channels have its a drop in the bucket.

 

[lilshymynx]

That's a lot of incels. Then again compared to how many subs those "Alpha Male" channels have its a drop in the bucket.

As MetaBob said in his other thread, its likely bot accounts. It's a common practice on streaming sites. You don't get 1300 subs overnight, even if you have a previous network, that's a bot network in action.

 

[Voboy]

 

[lovecraft68]

As MetaBob said in his other thread, its likely bot accounts. It's a common practice on streaming sites. You don't get 1300 subs overnight, even if you have a previous network, that's a bot network in action.

Very true and they probably sub to all the channels like it or through the same person.

I was referring more to the comments section. Great example of CMI, Man-babies, and mom's basement dwellers.