The rise and fall of robots.txt
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As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.
  • bedrooms@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    As I always write, trying to restrict AI training on the ground of copyright will only backfire. The sad truth is that malicious parties (dictatorships) will get more training materials because they won’t abide by rules. The end result is, dictators would outperform democracies in terms of future generation AIs, if we treat AI training like human reading.

    • zaphod@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 months ago

      You know what?

      I’m fine with that hypothetical risk.

      “The bad guys will do it anyway so we need to do it, too” is the worst kind of fatalism. That kind of logic can be used to justify any number of heinous acts, and I refuse to live in a world where the worst of us are allowed to drag down the rest of us.