[kjhcvkek77]

This philosophy hands your content on a silver platter to ai companies, so they can rake in money while giving nothing back to the author.

[latexr]

I don’t support LLM companies stealing content and profiting from it without contributing back. But if you’re going to fight that by making things more difficult for humans, especially those with accessibility needs, then what even is the point of publishing anything?

[kjhcvkek77]

There's a saying, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

An author might reasonably prefer 90% of people visit his site to 100% of people consuming the content indirectly.

[latexr]

I don’t think those numbers are even close to realistic. It’s absurd to think that having an accessible website will make everyone consume it via LLM, or that having an inaccessible website (which, by the way, will only stave off scraping temporarily) will make most people visit it. We can’t have a productive conversation by making up numbers.

[account42]

Wrapping the website in javascript also won't stop ML crawlers as they probably all already use headless chromium to deal with the modern web.