Someone's reasons for sharing information are coloured by the situation at the time of sharing it, amongst many other factors. Two years ago (say) no one predi

Someone's reasons for sharing information are coloured by the situation at the time of sharing it, amongst many other factors. Two years ago (say) no one predicted the meteoric rise of LLMs and their voracious appetite for data sets for training. These beasties are not simply search engines that are better direction pointers to your stuff (with a frisson of ads) but insist on being the final word and keep you out. To be blunt: It is stealing. The implied contract for publishing on the web has changed again, just as it has several times in the past. The worst thing here is the use of the term "freeware". Describing original content, displayed for all to see as -ware is outrageous. They might as well describe the content on Spotify and co as freeware ... bear with me: you could scrape wifi connections through your publicly available APs or even do some more broadband funky spectrum capture analysis and claim that is what an internet search engine does in its spare time and all is fine (lol). LLMs and GenAI are quite interesting things but I do not think that they are the last word in ... AI. Anyway the latest cool thingie cannot be allowed to break whatever the current unspoken and somewhat undefined social contract is in place. This bloke from MS seems to have forgotten that there really is a social contract of some sort and that if you say: "fuck you lot, omnomnom ... mmmm data ... ... laters (lol)" there might be some come back.