GPT-3 regularly scrapes the internet to teach itself language, but one redditor suspected it was teaching itself using AO3’s over 10 million works of fanfiction. And it turns out that yup, GPT-3 is training itself using fanfiction and now knows the mechanics of the “omegaverse” werewolf porn trope better than most humans. Fanfic authors are already locking their works down to avoid further mining.