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What is documented about platform AI policy toward authors in Chinese web fiction, and what does platform economics say about serial incentives?

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Thin, secondary. One news item (AsiaIPLaw, 26 July 2024) reports that ByteDance's Fanqie Novel added an AI-training supplement to author contracts (works usable for training, platform copyright over generated content, priority beta access) and offered a termination feature on 23 July 2024; it also states the platform's revenue share rewards number of readers and reading time. The Rest of World 2026 article on platform restrictions of AI-generated fiction could not be fetched (HTTP 429), and Qidian/Webnovel AI rules were not found; later 2026 developments appear only in search summaries and are not evidence here. No source read gives chapter length, update cadence or hook rules.

Thin, secondary. One news item (AsiaIPLaw, 26 July 2024) reports that ByteDance's Fanqie Novel added an AI-training supplement to author contracts (works usable for training, platform copyright over generated content, priority beta access) and offered a termination feature on 23 July 2024; it also states the platform's revenue share rewards number of readers and reading time. The Rest of World 2026 article on platform restrictions of AI-generated fiction could not be fetched (HTTP 429), and Qidian/Webnovel AI rules were not found; later 2026 developments appear only in search summaries and are not evidence here. No source read gives chapter length, update cadence or hook rules. Curator qualifications: Fanqie Novel added an AI-training supplement to author contracts (works usable for training; platform copyright over generated content) with a termination feature (news report, July 2024). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "url": "https://asiaiplaw.com/article/bytedance-web-novel-platforms-ai-clause-sparks-author-outrage",
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      "url": "https://icla.openjournals.ge/index.php/icla/article/view/5331",
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  • [sourced_fact] Thin, secondary. One news item (AsiaIPLaw, 26 July 2024) reports that ByteDance's Fanqie Novel added an AI-training supplement to author contracts (works usable for training, platform copyright over generated content, priority beta access) and offered a termination feature on 23 July 2024; it also states the platform's revenue share rewards number of readers and reading time. The Rest of World 2026 article on platform restrictions of AI-generated fiction could not be fetched (HTTP 429), and Qidian/Webnovel AI rules were not found; later 2026 developments appear only in search summaries and are not evidence here. No source read gives chapter length, update cadence or hook rules. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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