Federico Viticci 
We were not crazy. We were right.
Amazing work by our @robb corroborated by extensive analysis at Wired:
Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/
Regulation in this space cannot come soon enough.
AI companies that want to scrape the web for training purposes, or use their bots to summarize webpages, should follow a strict set of guidelines with identifiable user-agents and IP addresses.
Publishers should have a right to opt out of any AI access, request details as to whether their copyrighted content is included in any model, and if so, request that its gets removed and the model re-trained.
Hopefully the EU's AI Act will help.
Diogo Constantino@viticci there's already regulation. The recent copyright directive does address the issue of text and data mining.
@viticci I wish that people who ask for more regulation, actually knew the law, actually get involved on the democratic process to draft and approve law, instead of paying no attention to those who ask for people to participate.
@DiogoConstantino we are literally getting in touch with the EU as well as my Italian representatives about the AI Act 😉
@viticci AI act is already done... Approved and published (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52021AE2482)
So is the Copyright Directive:
Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32019L0790
@viticci on this matter it's important for people to read the TITLE II of the Directive 2019/790, which does create an exception of copyright for text and data mining (article 3), and creates a limitation to that exception (article 4).