[Swizec]

> Thought AI companies farming copyrighted work on the other hand, that's a different story.

Copyright also happens to be opt-out. You have to explicitly say “this is not copyrighted” for copyright to stop applying.

See your comment and my reply? Both copyrighted. Right now. As soon as we hit publish we started to own copyright. There is an EULA somewhere on HN that probably says we give HN implicit permission to host this content in perpetuity and can even make it available in APIs, show it to bots, etc. But that’s not the same as no copyright. If somebody who is not HN wants to screenshot this comment and publish it in a book, they in theory have to find us and ask for permission.

[JohnFen]

> Copyright also happens to be opt-out. You have to explicitly say “this is not copyrighted” for copyright to stop applying.

This isn't possible under US copyright law. You can say "this is not copyrighted" all you want, but it's still copyrighted. The closest you can get to voluntarily putting something in the public domain is to refuse to take enforcement actions against violations of your copyright.

[icedchai]

Do you take issue with search engines indexing your comments, making them discoverable, displaying them in search results? Possibly near ads?

[orev]

Search engines link back to the original sources, making them discoverable which is the “payment” for allowing it. That’s a very different use than an AI that doesn’t even know where the original content came from and provides nothing back to the original creator.