krsdcbl 3 hours ago

Maybe it's just me, or I might be missing a relevant implication - but I'm having a hard time understanding why so many people have become alarmist about the fact, that things that they publish on the web, can and will be scraped?

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ks2048 3 hours ago

It seems to be mainly a reaction against AI (as opposed to scraping in-general, e.g. for a search engine).

I'm not saying it makes sense, but there is a large and growing idea of: I want my content out in the world, but I don't want companies to use it for training AIs, especially for profit.

0xDEAFBEAD 2 hours ago

Might just be one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_cascade

I do find PG's idea of "aggressively conventional-minded" people to be a useful concept: https://paulgraham.com/conformism.html