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Ben Ptacek

@molly0xfff @ben @dangillmor

Who cares? I mean, Google and the search engines have made money on SO already for the results just by ads alone. Why the stance now?

To be clear.... any public data is monetized....Don't fool yourself.

Federation (public) can be pulled and used for monetization too, because it is open by design.

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Matthew Sainsbury

@bennysp @molly0xfff @ben @dangillmor many were under the impression that our content on StackExchange is licensed under CC-BY-SA which requires attribution. Reliable attribution is not possible in LLMs, as opposed to search engines

Ben Ptacek

@mattsains @molly0xfff @ben @dangillmor

But when you search Google and find your answer on SO at the top, what made anyone think this wasn’t being monetized?

Ben Ptacek

@mattsains @molly0xfff @ben @dangillmor

I will go further... what makes anyone think offering an open license model solution that is public, will prevent anyone from finding a loophole to monetizing?

Jeffrey Hulten

@mattsains @bennysp @molly0xfff @ben @dangillmor

Apparently CC as an organization thinks AI training is fair use?

John Allsopp

@bennysp @molly0xfff @ben @dangillmor it can be, but that is also a choice, we made a long time ago under very different circumstances, so very much worth reconsidering now we have a clearer sense of how this might play out.

Or you know we could have paid attention to the enclosure acts…

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