Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 20 hours agoYes, they should because they generate way more traffic. Why do you think people are trying to protect websites from AI crawlers? Because they want to keep public data secret?
Also, everyone knows AI companies used copyrighted materials and private data without permission. If you think they only used public data you’re uninformed or lying on their behalf.
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 20 hours ago
I personally consider the current copyright laws completely messed up, so I see no problem in using any data technically available for processing.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 20 hours ago
Ok, so you think it’s ok for big companies to break the laws you don’t like, cool. I’m sure those big companies will not sue you when you infringe on some of their laws you don’t like.
And I like the way you just ignored the two other issues I mentioned. Are you fine with AI bots slowing sites like Codeberg to a crawl? Are you fine with AI companies using personal data without consent?
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 19 hours ago
I’m fine with companies using any freely available data.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 19 hours ago
I’m also fine with them using data they can get for free like, I don’t know, weather data they collect themselves?
Data hosted by private individuals and open source projects is not free. Someone has to pay for hosting and AI companies sucking data with army of bots is elevating the cost of hosting beyond the means of those people/projects. They are shifting the costs of providing the “free” data on the community while keeping all the profits.
Private data used without consent is also not free. It’s valuable, protected data and AI companies are simply stealing it. Do you consider stolen things free?
I see your attitude is “they don’t hurt me personally and I don’t care what they do to other people”. It’s either ignorant or straight antisocial. Also a bit bootlickish.