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

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should be take permission first instead of this obscenity

No way. I want my AI trained on everything, not just pages that "opted in." If you don't want AI learning from your work, then don't publish it.

You probably think bandwidth costs are something you can squeeze out of thin air....

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

#42
Give away the milk, not the cow. Package the writing into a proper ebook, and offer that for sale. Use your blog to discuss highlights, or use cases for the book.

Most bloggers with specialized knowledge do not write everything on the blog. The blog can be a summary or highlights of something bigger, like a research paper or a book.

Most "knowledge workers" are not making their income by writing online. They are parlaying that into consulting projects or speaking gigs, things an LLM can't replace.

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

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post #38
post #17

Dynamically fill your website with heretical words where humans cannot see, but machines can. After that, generation of your content should trigger the content filters.

Ethnic slurs?

With this political climate you can even make do with Winnie the Pooh references.

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

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post #45

Why don't you want it to be used as training data? You want visitors to be able to freely benefit from your work. What's wrong with AI also benefiting? Or more specifically the AI's eventual users?

Attribution comes to mind.

Am I wrong when I don't attribute my understanding of words to the dictionary I read for any particular word?

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

#47

Why don't you want it to be used as training data? You want visitors to be able to freely benefit from your work. What's wrong with AI also benefiting? Or more specifically the AI's eventual users?

I’ll give that a shot; - AI learns what’s on the site - Visitors stop coming to the site, because the information is now freely available in parsed/summarized form from the AI - Blogger stops posting because there are no visitors - AI stops learning because there is no new content

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

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post #33
post #17

Dynamically fill your website with heretical words where humans cannot see, but machines can. After that, generation of your content should trigger the content filters.

Ah - fnords!

If you can’t see them, they can’t eat you.

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

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No way. I want my AI trained on everything, not just pages that "opted in." If you don't want AI learning from your work, then don't publish it.

> I want my AI trained on everything "your" AI ? > If you don't want AI learning from your work, then don't publish it. If you don't want me stealing and reusing your licensed open source code don't make it public If you don't want me to steal your car don't park it on public roads See how dumb that is ?

> If you don't want me stealing and reusing your licensed open source code don't make it public

A practical matter, larger point completely aside: a nonzero number of individuals and corps will indeed use licensed code internally if they come across it and they feel it helps their goals.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No way. I want my AI trained on everything, not just pages that "opted in." If you don't want AI learning from your work, then don't publish it.

If we were talking about free, open-source AIs available to everyone (ironically, what OpenAI set out to become), I'd be inclined to agree with you. However, we're talking about commercialised AIs that scrape your intellectual property and turn it into a money printing machine without paying you a dime.

Agree, search engines should be banned.
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