Comment by john01dav
12 hours ago
This model is the exact wrong direction for a healthy society. It will just make it harder to use information that's already available to the public, on a public website, and thus just create moats around training data.
Instead, I'd like to see a comprehensive copyright modernization bill that addresses training data, fair use, and copyrights of generated assets, in a fair and balanced way that minimizes moats and tries to address a reasonable compromise of each stakeholder's conflicting wants (being clever to satisfy as much as possible), and then ban websites from discriminating against traffic based on if it comes from a bot or a human. You can set rate limits, even at the network level, if you want as long as they apply to everyone, or charge per request as long as the price is the same for everyone, and so on. But, if I'm allowed to do it manually I should be allowed to do an identical task automatically.
Lucky that it's only illegal if it could be reasonably predicted to cause harm then!
I care a lot less about this issue as a matter of intellectual property than one of capacity consumption and cost.
You have large VC companies evading rate limits and other restrictions and they're causing real economic harm through their actions.