[alchemyzach]

LLM training has nothing in common with search engine web crawlers, from an ethical standpoint.

Web crawlers index your content and direct people to your website, giving the writer some credit (arguably a lot of credit).

LLMs gorge themselves on everything youve ever written in order to improve their ability to regurgitate/mimmick intelligence, while rarely ever giving credit to anyone at all.

I think the ability to block ai from including your work in its training data is important. Pointless? Maybe. But it should be an option for those who feel strongly enough about it.

[martin-t]

And this doesn't even scratch copyleft. Getting credit is nice and all but i publish my stuff under AGPL because i want my users to have the right to modify the software, even if somebody else builds on top of my work.

LLMs are being used to launder my code right now and take away my users' right.

There were cases where LLMs regurgitated functions verbatim, which caused a bit of uproar on Twitter and that's it. There should be massive lawsuits that take illegally trained LLMs deep into unprofitability.

But i guess the west is competing with China now and morality or even legally goes out the widow in a war.

[Dwedit]

It's more about the crawlers acting as a DDOS attack.