> I thought we had all agreed years ago that if you didn’t want your content copied, don’t make it freely available and unlicensed on the internet. Until LLMs

> I thought we had all agreed years ago that if you didn’t want your content copied, don’t make it freely available and unlicensed on the internet. Until LLMs came along, most large-scale internet scraping was for search engines. Websites benefited from this arrangement because search engines directed users to those websites. LLMs abused this arrangement to scrape content into a local database, compress that into a language model, and then serve the content directly to the user without directing the user to the website. It might've been legal, but that doesn't mean it was ethical.