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by mrgoldenbrown 662 days ago
Given how modern "AI" works, There is a certain irony in an AI focused company finding its content slurped up and spat back out with minor tweaks and then feeling blindsided. Do you vet all agents you advertise for how well they pay for all their training data?
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Thank you. Agreed.

With the new rush of LLMs being everywhere, copying and pasting will be common practice.

Trying to protect something that is unprotected like open information while benefitting from this exact transaction is a great irony.

It's just a bad business idea. If OP wants to make a directory it would make much more sense to open-source it and accept it will be continuously churned by AI