If it were up to me, Apple would create the world’s first “Do Not Train” registry. Enter your domain or web page, get a TXT record or meta tag to prove ownership, prevent Apple from using your content to train any LLM.
Only a small percentage of sites would do it, I think, so the training impact would be low, but it’d be extremely meaningful for those people. And it’d be a valuable PR tool, brand-booster, and competitor-shamer. (Bonus: make it open and encourage competitors to follow it.)
@cabel (a) why would this be different than then saying they’d honor a robots.txt?
(b) this sounds like a do not track thing, but without even the attempts at legislation around it (which themselves failed, and using the header at all is pointless)
@cabel As somebody who runs a service that does at lot of user-driven web crawling for archival purposes, I'm familiar with exactly how loose it all is...
I just don't think an opt-in list is the way to create this accountability. I would prefer it be settled with case-law that says "if you train on copyright protected work you'll get mega-sued" but large companies are trying to get ahead of that by making cash deals with anyone who can afford lawyers right now. :(
@cabel @hank right, this would entirely benefit Apple’s brand and require extra work for one specific vendor.
Frankly if they did this and opened it up to third party AI providers, I would be extremely tempted to sign up just to wantonly violate it and drag down the reputation it might carry.
Yes, I’m that petty, but maybe the only computer company I’ve ever used (save one gaming PC) in nearly four decades should stop acting in ways that have me looking for the exits.
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