As the article says, they’re trying to develop a standard like robots.txt that prevents scraping for usage by AI companies.
While I think this is futile in an industry that’s already dominated by oligarchical tech companies, it’s at least an attempt to make things better than the status quo of “we’ll steal your shit and you can’t do anything nurr nurrrrr”
Both funny and sad how quick folks are to comment just so they can dunk on Thing They Dislike, without bothering to look past the headline that misrepresents the point of the article.
‘Bluesky bad, updoots to the left’ mentality that I naively hoped had been left behind on Reddit.
As the article says, they’re trying to develop a standard like robots.txt that prevents scraping for usage by AI companies.
While I think this is futile in an industry that’s already dominated by oligarchical tech companies, it’s at least an attempt to make things better than the status quo of “we’ll steal your shit and you can’t do anything nurr nurrrrr”
Both funny and sad how quick folks are to comment just so they can dunk on Thing They Dislike, without bothering to look past the headline that misrepresents the point of the article.
‘Bluesky bad, updoots to the left’ mentality that I naively hoped had been left behind on Reddit.