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What strategies did you use? Other than quitting social media, blocking crawlers and enforcing an "email-wall" is what I just started to do with my personal web
by smnrg 3y ago
What strategies did you use? Other than quitting social media, blocking crawlers and enforcing an "email-wall" is what I just started to do with my personal website. I feel that it's hard to stay on top of "pretty please" robots.txt requests, especially with new, undeclared ones. I prefer word-of-mouth diffusion of links, skipping the algorithmic promotion game altogether. I decided that I won't ever rely on my online writings, recordings, or photography as main income again (I did that once: it worked, but it felt gradually poisoned by the need to build engagement.) But it feels weird that we got to the point where I have to shield a blog from bulimic information machines that pollute valuable knowledge, and I wonder what the right strategy is.
- JohnFen 3y ago> What strategies did you use? I see no other strategies that could possibly work. All it takes is one crawler to get through or ignore your defenses and your work has been used to help train a model. At that point, the horse is out of the barn. Any partial defense seems the same as no defense to me on this point. But it depends on what you're trying to protect. My concern isn't actually that my content may get reproduced through an LLM. I just don't want any of my work to be used to develop or improve these models, period.
- smnrg 3y agoYep, we agree on ethical stands. It's not that the uniqueness of my work is lost or anything like that. It's the choice of not feeding.