Accidental Tech PodcastJul 10, 2024

595: The Best Secret Store
https://atp.fm/595

Considerations for blocking AI crawlers, tech's labor issues, and Apple's continued battles with the world.

Accidental Tech Podcast: 595: The Best Secret Store

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Show threadOdin
@atpfm I feel like we already know what the downsides of having your site open to AI are, given that it’s happening right now
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/10/24195858/tuaw-unofficial-apple-tech-blog-ai-web-orange-khan
Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified

TUAW, “The Unofficial Apple Weblog,” was shut down by AOL in 2015, but it has resurfaced with large archives of seemingly plagiarized content under the bylines of former writers.

The Verge
Jul 10, 2024 at 11:00pmWeb
Show threadAbhi Beckert 🇺🇦Jul 11, 2024
@odin @atpfm That will happen wether you’re “open” to AI or not
Show threadOdinJul 11, 2024
@abhibeckert @atpfm Of course, but if you’re someone that runs an Apple-focused blog, your work is now being used to help generate text for these kinds of sites. It’s not that attempting to block AI bots will change what other people do with AI, instead it’s about choosing whether or not to passively be part of the system that makes it that much easier for someone to run one of these spam sites.