Very scary people fail to understand what "scraping" really means. I often see lots of arguments that would basically mean the death of the entire internet instantly if implemented, all just to try and spite AI that shutting down the internet wouldn't really stop anyway at this point.
They got the models. They got the data.
You can encourage new laws about their use, but there's really no point trying to say "reading things is not fair use".
@SirTapTap Prosecraft wasn't cool or useful. It was some guy saying he cared about authors while making a crappy linguistic model that failed on multiple accounts to do what it said from comments I've seen, and trawled what looks like pirated copies of books, even spoiling them, he was looking into another LLM with tons of books piled into it, and Prosecraft was tied into Benji's app Shaxpir, which is monetized thru a subscription service. He says he cares about authors, but really Benji was lying.
All the hand-wringing from tech enthusiasts like Techdirt and others about how authors killed some "amazing" tool have a massive stank to them.
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