Matt BirchlerJun 26, 2024

The public web and consent

As is often the case, my feelings are fuzzy

https://birchtree.me/blog/the-public-web-and-consent/

The public web and consent

This blog exists on the public web, and that means you as a user have a lot of control over both how you consume my work and what you can do with it. I publish to the web, so I suppose the canonical way of reading my work is to

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Show threadBen

@matt I'm going to just start copying your posts into my blog as a quote block, add a reference link, and putting "Same."*

You have my EXACT feelings on the entire LLM thing.
"I want my work to be online for all the world to see" but "I don't want a program to read it like any human could" don't seem to mesh very well.

*I feel I have to note I'm joking. Especially as this post in particular is about robots stealing work from others.

Jun 26, 2024 at 5:45pmWeb
Show threadMatt BirchlerJun 26, 2024
@bennusekabel haha, well as the article states, I technically allow you to do this, but I will have my entire legal team come after you if you do 😝