HACKER Q&A
📣 blindprogrammer

Is copyright obsolete in the age of AI?


Does copyright become obsolete now that large language models (LLMs) are scraping and ingesting the content we write, and then use it to train themselves? What's the point of being a volunteer content creator for OpenAI or Google if LLMs scrape everything you put online? Why even try?


  👤 JohnFen Accepted Answer ✓
This was the conundrum I faced when I learned that everything was being scraped to train LLMs. I haven't figured out a reasonable solution to this at all and was forced to remove my websites from being accessible to random web visitors.

I'm very eager to find a way that I can make my sites accessible again.


👤 FunnyGunther
Well there is some flag that you can set in robots.txt of your website. But however I am sure, not many AI vendors respect this flag.

Which is why Google Gemini doesn't works to that level of magical greatness, I guess. They go with the ethical route of data collection.