Comment on Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
XLE@piefed.social 3 weeks agoThe 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
minfapper@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Eh, it’s less about defeatism and more that I’m watching a fight between two assholes so I’m finding it hard to empathize with either side.
Like… Publishers regularly screwed over consumers, content creators, and tried to break the web multiple times. They can bleed for all I care
FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Guess we'll see, then. I suspect the result is going to be a bunch of websites going "huh? Where did all our traffic suddenly disappear to?"
XLE@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Google’s zero-click AI search is already harming small publishers! I’m glad we have some common ground on opposing that.
Pushing for regulation against providing AI results would be a great start, which would make the step in this article unnecessary.
InevitableList@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
That’s like saying copyright doesn’t work. If a human can see it a human can copy it