Multiple artificial intelligence companies are circumventing a common web standard used by publishers to block the scraping of their content for use in generative AI systems, content licensing startup TollBit has told publishers.

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Sounds like we’re all going to need to start putting the equivalent of Trap Streets in all our web content, source code, etc.

I heard someone has already had success placing nonsense in a white-on-white box of their site, later querying commercial AI to prove it was ingested w/o permission.

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My fear is that those techniques will make the lives of people using screen readers increasingly harder

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There probably is a way to poison AI training material and it could be handy feature for social media.

Anti Commercial-AI license

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Hey member when google drove around and sopped up everyone’s wifi info and was all like, “What? We found it.” Then they threw it on the pile of data-4-sale and are still drowning in cash from?

Message received and understood! Oh, uh, here’s a couple-hundred-million fine for the uh, imposition. We’ll just leave it on the nightstand.

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The Linux Mint forms got AI ddosed.

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Red light? Sorry, didn’t see it. Was going too fast. Don’t worry, it’s water under the bridge. I forgive you for putting it there.

Anti Commercial-AI license

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