Comment by qingcharles
9 days ago
The fact AI companies are stripping mining IA for content and not helping to be part of the solution is egregious.
9 days ago
The fact AI companies are stripping mining IA for content and not helping to be part of the solution is egregious.
How is it "egregious" that people are obtaining content to use for their own purposes from a resource intentionally established as a repository of content for people to obtain and use for their own purposes?
Because nobody who opens a public library does so intending, nor consenting, for random companies to jam the entrance trying to cart off thousands of books solely to use for their own enrichment.
https://xkcd.com/1499/
Years and years ago I shared a cubicle with a woman named Tracy. A couple times a month Tracy would get lunch at the Mongolian BBQ place down the road (all you can eat stir fry that has nothing to do with Mongolian food for anyone unfamiliar).
Anyhow, Tracy would put a gallon sized ziplock bag into her purse, and at the restaurant shovel half a dozen plates worth of food into it. Then she'd work the afternoon eating out of her purse like it's a bowl, just sitting there on the desk.
No one is carting off anything. You still have the original. If you could make copies of books for almost no cost why would you hoard them?
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Might be easier for them to just pay for the mirrors and do an on-site copy and move the data in a container?
That way they would provide some more value back to the community as a mirror?
Has any evidence been provided for this fact?
They absolutely are.
Of course they are. Had to block anything at work coming from one certain company because it wasn't respecting robots.txt and the bill was just getting silly.
Yes.