@liztai Is there a way to opt out? norobots???

@liztai Paywalls and theft of copyright materials/your hard work is never ok.

This is why we need legislation that addresses these issues and tells big tech, "No! You cannot steal from creators! If you want it, you need to *pay for it!"

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Thanks for the heads up. I will be taking down my microfiction blog as of today.

@liztai I would counsel against capitulation, but, as with music files in the digital era, you won't be able to be utterly leakproof.

@liztai - Long gone are the days when Google lived by the goodwill motto "Don't be evil".

@liztai Every time you post something meaningful, also post nonsense with an equal word count?

@liztai Yikes! Thinking of the book excerpts on my website and wondering if there’s any sort of language I might include to prevent this. Something like I do not give permission for my words to be used in AI applications without my express permission. Is that dumb?

@liztai hah, the joke’s on them, everything I post is absolute garbage, code included.

@liztai I may have a workaround for #writers, #Gumroad!

It has a $0+ setting so people still get your work for free, but bots would have to choose their price, enter an email address, click the link inside, and download in order to scrape the text. Like a false paywall! Hopefully this will protect my #writing, and maybe it can protect others too?

I'm not against all uses of #AI, but I'm very much for consent and compensation, and it's hard to fend off the "requests" of a massive tech oligopoly

@liztai If they want to train on my bad spelling and grammar, have at it.

But I can see a long legal battle brewing out on the high seas

@liztai Unfortunately, I don't think we have much choice. I'm not too worried about AI, though. People will eventually realize that whatever is created via AI has no soul or beauty.

@liztai Perhaps, in your blog, limitingit via robots.txt ?

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Idk about paywalls but srsly considering making my blog pw-protected. Haih.

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Maybe something like the PDA access restriction plugin could be implemented to add a Paywall but only for Google IPs, that should allow their indexers to find tour website and titles, but limit how much content they can access... maybe a new plugin will have to be created, but technically it is possible.