Comment by dabockster

Open vs closed source software

Open vs closed web

Both of the open options are nice on paper, until you realize that they were largely being pushed by big tech. The same big tech that is scraping them hard for AI training, and possibly have been using them silently without respecting licensing agreements for an even longer period of time.

"Open" only works when everyone plays nice and fair. This whole kerfuffle of AI scraping has shown that this isn't happening, and likely hasn't happened for a long time if at all.