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You can repeat it, but we fundamentally disagree, it's not a matter of understanding. Fundamentally it's not true that the moment I publish something on the internet, I lose control of who can consume my intellectual property. Licensing, for example, is a way we regulate the way that code or prose can be consumed even if public. Also expressing my consent is not in any way a way to control others, is a way to control…
Ok, that wasn't clear before since you just kept saying how you expressed your consent rather than why your consent should be taken into account. Licensing is much much more limited than you seem to be thinking of it. For instance, you said explicitly you want a way to control your ideas. The only thing this can mean is a way to control who gets to use your ideas, or what they get to use them for. So if I express a p…
So here the consent is indeed about what can be done with the data.
In general, it's absolutely the norm that public websites (I.e., unauthenticated) restrict even who can access the data. The simplest example that comes to mind is geoblocking. I have all the rights to say that my website is not made available to anybody in the US, for example. Would you still call that website "public"? Would bypassing the block via a VPN be a violation of my consent? This is mostly a moral discussion I suppose.
But anyway, it's not what's happening here. LLMs access content for the sole purpose of doing something with that content, either training or providing the service to their customers. They are not humans, they are not consumers, they don't simply fetch the content and present it to the users (a much more neutral action, like curl or the browser does). It's impossible to distinguish, in the case of LLMs the act of accessing and the act of using, so the difference you make doesn't apply in my opinion.