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This has to be seen in context of AI - Google will offer this to companies to ‘protect their pages from being scraped’
Actually it would make some sense, not that I like it though.
What can you do to prevent scraping? A lot of people are screaming about their IP being used to train AI, but have they actually done anything to tell the world that you can't use the texts to train AI? Does copyright alone protect against the use for AI training? To the best of my knowledge there's no case law either way. But if you have to circumvent DRM to train AI then you'll have a hard time witht the "I did not know that I couldn't do that" defense.
So some news outlets get to protect their precious little articles from the big bad AI, which will probably destroy news as we know it anyway even more than it already has, while the rest of us gets force fed advertisement.
Allow me to sarcastically quote timbuk3
I was thinking about this. What happens when all the big outlets are having AI write their news?You can't get answers on today's news without feeding the model today's news. Therefore, somebody has to create the data source.
I see a few scenarios:
I'm failing to see where this will go well. Is there another scenario?
Yeah, the whole idea of open web democratizing knowledge empowers similarly learning of people and learning of AI. For the same reasons. Blocking and fragmenting this powerful space is reactionary, I think ownership of AI is a bigger issue.