Honestly? I’m down with that. And when the LLM’s end up pricing themselves out of usefulness, we’ll still have the fediverse version. Having free sites on the net with solid crowd-sourced information is never a bad thing even if other people pick up the data and use it.
It’s when private sites like Duolingo and Reddit crowd source the information and then slowly crank down the free aspect that we have the problems.
The Ad sponsored web model is not viable forever.
sramder@lemmy.world 6 months ago
At this point I’m assuming most if not all of these content deals are essentially retroactive. They already scrapped the content and found it useful enough to try and secure future use, or at least exclude competitors.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 6 months ago
They scraped the content, liked the results, and are only making these deals because it’s cheaper than getting sued.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Can they really sue (with a chance of winning) if you scrape content that’s submitted by users? That’s insane.