Lene MacLeodAug 13, 2023
Clarkesworld
"AI" companies think that we should have to opt-out of data-scraping bots that take our work to train their products. There isn't even a required no-scraping period between the announcement and when they start. Too late? Tough.
Not acceptable.
#RequireOptIn
Aug 12, 2023 at 7:19pmWeb
Show threadEmily KingAug 12, 2023
@clarkesworld also, there are those of us with sites where we don't have control over the code side of things, and so can't add arbitrary code to our headers.
Show threadWTLAug 12, 2023
@clarkesworld That's only because if it was opt-in, no one would allow it at all.
Show threadLinuxUserGD Aug 12, 2023

@clarkesworld
Is it possible to add copyrighted text or robots.txt content to the LICENSE so source files won't be scraped?
Could confirm that ChatGPT was trained with the public GitHub repo but OpenAI requires a legal name for reports.

Edit:
e. g. there is
https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack

Am I in The Stack? - a Hugging Face Space by bigcode

This app lets you check if your GitHub repositories are part of the The Stack dataset. Enter your GitHub username and select the dataset version to see if your code is included. If you want your da...

Show threadrhetorical answersAug 12, 2023

@clarkesworld

'THE COMMONS IS MINE! MIIIIIIINE!'

Show threadXauri'EL ZwaanAug 12, 2023
@clarkesworld I mean, it could be seen as an improvement on their previous position of "we don't give a shit whether you consent or not"
Show threadAnalog AIAug 13, 2023
@clarkesworld Plus, they are keeping everything they scraped before.
Show threadJoseph A. LangleyAug 13, 2023
@clarkesworld Also, scraping (edit: the kind that the AI companies use) and DDoS attacks are functionally the same to the receiving server. Both are basically an excessive number of seemingly legitimate requests.
Show threadspmatich vk3spm Aug 13, 2023
@clarkesworld boy do those AI models need training. #AIFail #TrainYourAIForYou
Show threadRae 🧑‍💻🕸️Aug 13, 2023
@clarkesworld Hopefully OpenAI goes bankrupt pretty soon since this AI thing is really expensive apparently lol.
Show threadThe Enemy is WithinAug 13, 2023
@clarkesworld
Biological data scraping bots i.e. corpus linguists have been getting away with this for years.
#corpora
Show threadMr. Beedell, Roke (RJLB)Aug 16, 2023
@clarkesworld
I believe that it should be opt out.