Will we try to prevent google (and other) scrapers?
The headline is pretty much a summary. “Google Says It will Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI” https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/07/google-says-it-will-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-ai/
The first question is obviously; do we as a community on Lemmy even want to try and stop them from scraping our content here? If no; well. ok then.
If yes; how? I’m not sure if “preventing access” to unregistered users would really prevent this. Pretty sure google has enough money and manpower to figure out a way to make it their mission to get around “can only accessed by members” content.
My bits here: AI and LLMs have gained a great hype and will not be stopped, as they are very useful, at least in some usecases. However, if the access is restricted by cost, only large megacorps will be able to train the most performent models and study how they work, eventually ending up in an oligo- or monopol. If access is free to everyone, open concepts can be developed much better, not ending up in total dependence on those megacorps. Because of this I support free data scraping for everyone!