Abandoned AmericaJul 5, 2023
After spending the last few years working really hard to beef up longer format histories of abandoned locations on my website I am seriously considering pulling all but, say, three paragraphs of each and putting the rest on Patreon for subs because of how disgusted I am that the work I've done will be used in Google's AI training and search results without my consent. It is a very frustrating situation to be placed in.
Show threadAbandoned AmericaJul 5, 2023

To be clear, I would really rather not have to do the extra work and paywalling content is something that runs against what I've wanted to do with my work from the beginning, which is make info accessible to whoever wants to view it.

But I also really abhor the idea of my writing being absorbed and plagiarized by search summaries that encourage bypassing my site entirely and I don't know of another way to prevent it.

Show threadAbandoned AmericaJul 5, 2023
I would bet a not insignificant amount of money that a good number of other small websites that are looking at the same predicament are mulling what their options are to prevent data scraping of decades of their work and deciding whether paywalling is the only way to prevent it. This will absolutely devastate the internet as we know it. I'm well aware of the social media debacles here but the issue stretches far beyond corporate behemoths trying to monetize APIs
Show threadXynJul 5, 2023
@AbandonedAmerica how is what they're doing not a violation of your copyright? Are we just waiting for the court system to catch up on big data scraping for AI data sets?
Show threadAbandoned America
@xyniden it definitely is, we are, and it probably won't 😕
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Show threadXynJul 5, 2023
@AbandonedAmerica I didn't follow all of the details, but I did see a while back that Getty Images is suing Stable Diffusion over their use of copyrighted images in their data sets, so if their case sets a lasting precedent we may be in luck
Show threadAbandoned AmericaJul 5, 2023
@xyniden we'll see. It may just get them to back off Getty and steal elsewhere from smaller sources less likely to be able to kick them for it
Show threadOlavJul 5, 2023

@AbandonedAmerica @xyniden

Copyrighted is a biatch because unless it's filed with uscpo you can only sue for physical damages (loss of revenue). So you're gonna spend $10k to recover $1k.