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 threadChris Ainsworth
@AbandonedAmerica Yeah, I totally get that. Without the ability to explicitly control when and where our words are used for such purposes (and the ability to enforce it), I feel like we're basically stuck. I wonder if there's some sort of way to build a poison pill into our sites, some potential technique that would reduce or kill the value of our harvested content when used as AI fodder.
Jul 5, 2023 at 5:56amIvory for Mac
Show threadAbandoned AmericaJul 5, 2023
@driph that would be great although with the money to be made on this I have a feeling they'd figure out how to work around that poison pill pretty quickly even if there was one