Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers

• arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Corporations want the existing copyright system for their own products but simultaneously want to freely scrape data from everyone else.

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  • Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I see that as a copyright problem, not a specific LLM one.

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    • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This issue is largely manifesting through AI scraping rjght now. Additionally, many intentionally ignore robots.txt. Currently, LLM scrapers are basically just bad actors on the internet. Courts have also ruled in favor of a number of AI companies when sued in the US, so it’s unlikely anything will change. Effectively, if you don’t like the status quo, stuff like this is one of your few options.

      This isn’t even mentioning of course whether we actually want these companies to improve their models before resolving the problems of energy consumption and potential displacement of human workers.

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      • Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        All crawlers ignore robots text since the very start. Anyway, if THAT is the problem then IT is a problem, not the LLMs as a whole.

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• Stern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Third thing: Point out obvious hypocrisy.

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