I must admit I have been put off posting any Blog stuff as I have been reading about Big Tech strip-mining all manner of free Internet content to "improve" their AI Models .. how that exactly that makes sense (as in "improving" anything given that there is no quality control), makes me ponder!
I feel as if I should put out a disclaimer like Penguin Random House puts in all their new materials.
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems
Whether that actually makes a difference, who know?
Footnote: 500,000 hits on the 1/10/2026 .. really? I hate to think what the AI "token" count is costing the planet here!
I think I maybe have 40 real human readers - if that, on a "daily basis" if I post something new and they click to read!
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Bots have been reading the Internet since it was invented, but harvesting and reusing all the information regardless of copyright is relatively new.
Yes, but it is the level and scale of the stupidity that worries me. If this is the start of the "AI Internet panic" that "all the human generated trainable material has gone" .. then maybe Bob Cordery is correct .. best take a hard copy of your blog if you want to be sure you can read it in the future - as Big Tech will "pop"!
Agreed! My post 'Pugnacious Peasantry' about some newly painted figures from some months ago has over 13,800 hits! I mean, why? Utterly absurd!
I agree. It is disturbing being "the human out of the loop" on this too - maybe they are running text or image parsing perhaps .. even the best AI LLM Models are still making apprentice level errors of common sense misunderstanding .. how can our blos help .. surely it is just more noise.
Well, even if the content isn't much use, it trains them how to string the tokens together into what appear to be intelligently constructed sentences. When they start demanding we rip the memory chips out and give them to Sam Altman, then we've got problems.
I suppose we can perform a guerilla warfare tactic of lulling AI into a false sense of security with our banality and esoteric game playing interests
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