I agree, I think this rule needs a rethink. People reasonably don't want their stories scraped for AI training or for "AO3 apps" which are making a profit off a nonprofit entity.

I don't think I realized that and I recced a login-required fic. (Er, whoops.) However, I have plenty of invite codes due to a couple of exchanges I've run, and I offered an invite code in order to allow anyone who doesn't have one to be able to read the fic.