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>> You could avoid the scraping by requiring login > This is easily bypassed by having some sort of pattern matching sign-up script I would imagine it's not t
by tivert 2y ago
>> You could avoid the scraping by requiring login
> This is easily bypassed by having some sort of pattern matching sign-up script
I would imagine it's not that easy. At a minimum you could have captchas, and if those stop working you could always add some other friction (like a nominal payment for an account, a la Metafilter).
> Similar problem to the above. Why would someone want to join your community when the first thing they see is that it has a spam problem that's seemingly unaddressed?
Because they understand the reason, and there emerges some common understanding that's something you need to do to discourage scraping?
- gruez 2y ago>Because they understand the reason, and there emerges some common understanding that's something you need to do to discourage scraping? The only way I can see this working out is in some sort of author's forum, where everyone there are personally affected by LLM training and therefore they're willing to put up with the barriers. The same can't said be true for the average reader, or even most readers. They're far less to care about their artistic/literary livelihoods being killed by AI, and as we seen with how popular Amazon and Uber is despite their treatment of their delivery "partners", even if they're sympathetic to you that's no guarantee that they'll support you at their inconvenience. The overwhelming majority of readers is going to hit your signup/pay-wall and bounce, which means all you're doing is kneecapping your reach in exchange for a bit of smugness against AI companies.
- tivert 2y ago> a bit of smugness against AI companies Huh? I don't think "smug" is an appropriate word to use there. One isn't smug for not wanting to get exploited. If anything's smug, it's this sense that AI companies should get whatever they want and everyone just and there's nothing anyone can do about it.