> If you don't want your content to end up in some database/archive don't publish it for the whole world to see. This principle somewhat reminds me of the line

> If you don't want your content to end up in some database/archive don't publish it for the whole world to see. This principle somewhat reminds me of the line that "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product", and it seems to me similarly misleading - my data gets harvested and sold by companies with which I have non-paying relationships and by companies I have to pay for things (I am made the product in both cases). As you note - the AI companies are ignoring copyright law and pirating everything that seems useful to them regardless of whether it was published for free access. The potential externalities here are troubling. https://vbuckenham.com/blog/how-to-find-things-online/ https://vbuckenham.com/blog/how-to-find-things-online/