The LudditeReddit signed a deal with Google to use its data to train LLMs. To celebrate, we made a firefox extension that lets you replace all your comments with any text of your choosing. All we ask is that you not choose something copyrighted. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its copyrighted material, and we wouldn't want Reddit's uniquely valuable data to become hopelessly intermingled with that of litigious copyright-holders.
Kevin Freitas@theluddite Somewhat related: I’d love to get some initial feedback from #WordPress users on a plugin I’m awaiting official review. It poisons AI bots with garbled content instead of outright blocking them: https://kevinfreitas.net/tools-experiments/
If anyone installs it let me know — I’d love to see how it does on your pages/posts. Don’t worry, it doesn’t alter your content in the database but garbles it on-visit by #LLM bots. Cheers!
Tools & Experiments - Kevin Freitas
WordPress Plugins AI Poison Pill [beta] Download v1.0.20240304(will update to use official WordPress.org link once approved/live) Email [email protected] with any questions or suggestions. The words you write and publish on your website are yours. Instead of blocking AI/LLM scraper bots from stealing your stuff why not poison them with garbage content instead? This plugin scrambles … Continue reading "Tools & Experiments"