'Shōsetsuka ni Narō' Novel Website Scraped for A.I. Developer

Naro FanDB, an unofficial fan X (formerly Twitter) account for the Japanese novel website Shōsetsuka ni Narō, posted on April 27 that a public dataset from the RyokoAI project scraped about 711,700 works from the website.

Netizens questioned the ethics of using works from Shōsetsuka ni Narō, which can be viewed publicly without registering an account.

The 65-gigabyte dataset is split into 21 segments, and ANN confirmed that at least five of the segments contain text from Shōsetsuka ni Narō.