Comment on Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
XLE@piefed.social 2 months agoSounds like people don’t want AI scrapers destroying their websites without their consent.
Comment on Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
XLE@piefed.social 2 months agoSounds like people don’t want AI scrapers destroying their websites without their consent.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 months ago
And they may also want a magical unicorn for a pet. Simply wanting a thing doesn't conjure it into existence.
They want the same thing that people who want DRM want - a way to show their content to a viewer without that viewer being able to copy what they're seeing. It's just as impossible either way. As with DRM there may be tricks one can come up with to hinder it temporarily under some circumstances, but fundamentally data is data. If someone can see it then someone can copy it.
XLE@piefed.social 2 months ago
The companies doing the unethical scraping are the megatech companies: Google, OpenAI, Anthropic. They can absolutely be reigned in.
Megacorps invented DRM to try to keep their profits from the public. Now megacorps are trying to scrape up everybody else’s data and close off the public. That’s literally the goal of Google’s zero-click AI.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 months ago
Also Moonshot, Alibaba, Baidu. Can they also be reined in?
It doesn't matter who invented DRM. My point is that DRM fundamentally doesn't work. If you pubish a web page in a manner that allows humans to read it then it's also readable by AIs. A pinkie-promise not to is the best you can get.
XLE@piefed.social 2 months ago
This post is about Google, so that’s why I’m focusing on Google. This is a positive step forward against one massive, unethical, evil AI company.
Defeatism just benefits them. We don’t need it.
InevitableList@beehaw.org 2 months ago
That’s like saying copyright doesn’t work. If a human can see it a human can copy it