"[The moderator crackdown is] just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you." – @ben
@molly0xfff@ben@dangillmor AI is going to ruin the internet. Everyone will be alone, an island unto themselves, surrounded by a sea of bots. And if we see another island, we will have no way to know if it's a bot on that island. The internet has stopped being real.
@molly0xfff@ben@dangillmor Stack Overflow's conduct and handling of the situation is atrocious. I support protesting/pressuring SO but deleting answers is only detrimental to real humans looking for help via search engines. SO has backups/edit-caches that OpenAI will consume, deleting makes that data exclusive to the "AI".
Adding a protest message to answers and directing users to community forums/spaces outside of walled gardens is more effective.
@shom@molly0xfff@ben@dangillmor Ever heard of low-background steel? Various instruments are made out of world war 2 and earlier battleship steel, some recovered from the bottom of the ocean, because all post-1945 steel is radioactive.
Pre-2023 Internet content is going to be a precious resource like low-background steel someday, the way things are going. Archives will be valuable, especially if one has the legal right to use them. (Although that will NOT deter people, they will obfuscate.)
@bennysp@molly0xfff@ben@dangillmor many were under the impression that our content on StackExchange is licensed under CC-BY-SA which requires attribution. Reliable attribution is not possible in LLMs, as opposed to search engines
I will go further... what makes anyone think offering an open license model solution that is public, will prevent anyone from finding a loophole to monetizing?
@molly0xfff@ben@dangillmor Question: "scraped, fed into a model." Can't people scrape posts, etc. from Mastodon? They're not exactly hidden from the Internet... (Seriously, I don't know how this works)
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