Comment by bgwalter

> These are the only motivations?

No, just the major ones. But it's nice to be honest and consistent about those with your audience, and with yourself.

If you just want to contribute something good to the world, being seen by LLMs in training and retrievable by them via search are both good things that strongly advance that goal. If you also want to make money and/or cred this way, then LLMs are interfering with that - but so do search engines and e-mail and copy/paste.

It's unfortunate, but no one is actually stealing anything (unless a work gets regurgitated in full and without credit, which is an infrequent and unfortunate side effect, and pretty much doesn't happen anymore unless you go out of your way to cause it to happen). Works are being read and interpreted and understood (for some definition of that term), and then answers are provided based on this understanding. If that stops someone from reaching your page, that sucks, but that's been a factor before LLMs too; intellectual property is not meant to be monopoly on information.

(Some of those complains get even more absurd when they get extended to LLMs using tools. As designed and customary, when LLM invokes search and uses the results from some page, it cites it as a source, exposing the URL to it directly in at least two places - inline, and on the overall sources/citations list. Credit is not lost.)