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If you want summaries from my website, go to my website.I will. Through Perplexity. My lifespan is limited, and I have better ways to spend it than digging out information while you make a buck from making me miserable (otherwise there isn't much reason to complain, other than some anti-AI ideology stance).
> I want a way to deny any licence to any third-party user agent that will apply machine learning on my content, whether you initiated the request or not.
That's not how the Internet works. Allowing for that would mean killing user-generated content sites, optimizing proxies, corporate proxies, online viewers and editors, caches, possibly desktop software too.
Also, my browser probably already does some ML on the side anyway. You'd catch a lot of regular browsing this way.
Ultimately, the rules of the road are what they always have been: whatever your publicly accessible web server spouts out on a request is fair game for the requester to consume however they like, in part or entirely. If you want to limit access for particular tools or people, put up a goddamn paywall. All the noise about scrapping and stuff is attention economy players trying to have their cake and eat it too. As the user in - i.e. the victim of - attention economy, I don't feel much sympathy for that plight.
Also:
> LLMs — and more importantly the companies that train and operate them — should not be trusted at all, especially for so-called "summarization"
That's not your problem. That's my problem. If I use a shitty tool from questionable vendor to parse your content, that's on me. You should not care. In fact, being too interested in what I use for my Internet consumption can be seen as surveillance, which is not nice.