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How can I prevent my site from being a free dataset for LLMs?

#1
Hi I am a blogger working on a small niche . I have written all these articles from the ground up with considerable effort. I don't want this to end up just as a free training data set for LLMs. Is there anything I can do to prevent that and still keep my site open free for visitors?

Re: How can I prevent my site from being a free dataset for LLMs?

#4

For ChatGPT you can block it as per https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/bot For others, take same measures as unwanted traffic or scrapping.

Those instructions seem to be for plugins, not scraping training data.

In any case, OpenAI should inspect every website's terms of use before ingesting it in their training data. They shouldn't be exempted from this work. We shouldn't have to conform to their methods, there are laws and systems in place for that. Expensive, yes.

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#5
The training on GPT was done on Common Crawl, Reddit, books, and Wikipedia.

For Common Crawl, the documentation says blocking it on robots.txt should work, as for Wikipedia, Reddit, and books, there's no option than to not participate AFAIK.

OpenWebText2 has no mention of robots.txt, so good luck with that.

Re: How can I prevent my site from being a free dataset for LLMs?

#8

Require a login to read beyond the first paragraph

This is the only way. Yes, a reputable company operating in a country that respects laws will respect your robots.txt or some sort of future no-ai tag. But everyone else won't.
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