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we have decades(!) of fights+best practices+more fights+more best practices about public+semi public data on the internet and scrapers/automated systems/derivative uses. it is wild the way genAI companies/devs basically just say "but working through all that is hard and i really want to do this"
i saw a post go by where a genAI dev was like "we have search snippets! do you have a problem with SEARCH SNIPPETS" and yes! lots of people have problems with search snippets! there are been lawsuits! its kind of a big deal!!
its disengenuous for genAI devs regardless of company size to behave as if there is something natural or neutral or inevitable about large scale content scraping and derivative product creation, which has been a deeply controversial practice since the advent of search
if they're so into public information they should have to give authors the home addresses of anyone with a six figure salary working at or for their companies then, see how they like it
Well that’s what happens when surveillance is so invasive and abusive that your lived experience has no barrier between public and private: you yourself can no longer manage the boundaries that platforms purport to hold.
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There's never really been a significant penalty for big companies taking individual authors' works.