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by wvenable 1y ago
And a few decades ago, it would have been search engine scrapers instead.
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by wvenable 1y ago
But then we get to use those AI tools. The refrain here comes down not to "AI" but mostly to "the AI bot assault" which is a different thing. Sure lets have an discussion about badly behaved and overzealous web scrapers
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by wvenable 1y ago
Absolutely. If you want to put all kinds of copyright, license, and even payment restrictions on your content go ahead. And if AI companies or people abuse that, that's bad on them. But I do think if you're serious about free an
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by wvenable 1y ago
That's a problem with scrapers, not with AI. I'm not sure why there are way more AI scraper bots now than there were search scraper bots back when that was the new thing. However that's still an issue of scapers and rate li
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by wvenable 1y ago
Sure. But we're already talking about presumption of free and open here. I'm sure people are also reading my words and incorporating it into their own for-profit work. If I cared, I wouldn't make it free and open in the fi
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by wvenable 1y ago
You have a problem with badly behaved scrapers, not AI. I can't disagree with being against badly behaved scrapers. But this is neither a new problem or an interesting one from the idea of making information freely available to everyo
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by wvenable 1y ago
Problem one is not specific to AI and not even about AI. Problem two is not anything new. Taking freely available content and distilling it into a product is something valuable and potentially worth paying for. People used to buy encyclop
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by wvenable 1y ago
Does allow bots to access my information prevent other people from accessing my information? No. If it did, you'd have a point and I would be against that. So many strange arguments are being made in this thread. Ultimately it is th
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by wvenable 1y ago
Is the problem they exist or the problem they are badly accessing your site? Because there are two conflating issues here. If humans or robots are causing you issues, as both can do, that's bad. But that has nothing to do with AI in
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by wvenable 1y ago
> The problem is not AI bot scraping, per se, but "AI bot scraping while disregarding all licenses and ethical considerations". What licenses? Free and open web. Go crazy. What ethical considerations? Do I police how users
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by wvenable 1y ago
If an AI bot is accessing my site the way that regular users are accessing my site -- in other words everyone is using the town center as intended -- what is the problem? Seems to be a lot of conflating of badly coded (intentionally or not)
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by wvenable 1y ago
Is that really the problem we are discussing? I've had people attack my server and bring it down. But that has nothing to do with being free and open to everyone. A top hacker news post could take my server.
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by wvenable 1y ago
> Everyone loves the dream of a free for all and open web... But the reality is how can someone small protect their blog or content from AI training bots? Aren't these statements entirely in conflict? You either have a free for all
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by wvenable 1y ago
They're already losing their jobs so this unjustified fantasy has already been destroyed by reality. There are no good economic indicators for the US right now.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Of course de minimis import rules make sense. Processing every $20 or $50 parcel through full customs would cost more in bureaucracy than it would raise in revenue. This is why many countries around the world have de minimis rules includi
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by wvenable 1y ago
We consider it health care for our pets.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I think it's best that we keep any profit motive out of this. It certainly doesn't work for health care.
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by wvenable 1y ago
As I've learned from Jewish friends, Judaism is rarely that simple. Here's an article about Judaism and MAID in Canada: https://thecjn.ca/opinion/how-jewish-nursing-homes-approach-...
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by wvenable 1y ago
> Forcing others to contribute to funding and carrying it out through taxes is not. How else is it supposed to work? > Some sick people are already depressed and feel like a burden we shouldn't put ideas in their heads. You sound
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by wvenable 1y ago
I only personally know one person who has chosen MAID. He was a close family friend and was very ill. He decided that once he got to the point where he could no longer walk that he didn't see any further point in living. There was n
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by wvenable 1y ago
That's funny because I don't presume anything on the Windows store has integrity and feel safer downloading the MSI from the official source.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Yes, making it possible was intentional. But it just goes to show easy it would be for them to remove that option. While they are currently specifically choosing not do that for their own hardware, they could change their mind tomorrow. F
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by wvenable 1y ago
Right. The OP's point was that just having 2 major OSes is the problem but it's clearly not because we had that situation with desktops/laptops and they both allow arbitrary code.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Microsoft mismanaged it but there was a potential parallel universe where they were successful at that plan and consumer versions of Windows would be locked to the Microsoft store. They did a bunch of terrible inept rollouts with confusing
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by wvenable 1y ago
> This is the worst thing to happen to technology in recent times since there is only two major phone OS's. I don't think that's it. The desktop OS situation has historically be similar with 2 major large players and a bu
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by wvenable 1y ago
I predict Windows will end up going this route before Google backtracks on it. This is the future; partially fuelled by malware, partially fuelled by the desire for platform control, and partially fuelled by government regulation.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I don't think that was in any way slower. You assume a simple form is enough to cover all possible situations in a non-frustrating way.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Nope.
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by wvenable 1y ago
My last experience with a chatbot wasn't terrible. It asked me all the relevant information about the problem, even follow up questions, and all required reference numbers, and then passed me off to a human support person. A human wou
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by wvenable 1y ago
It used to be that simple but Microsoft (and others) are intent on copying Linux here. That would probably be fine on Windows as well as Linux if there was just one standard.

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