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by vb-8448 320 days ago
> LLMs are not search engines, and I'm not gaining any followers or customers in any meaningful way because an LLM indexes my site.

^^^^

This

For the moment, and for the foreseeable future, you are just giving your content for free (and have to pay the hosting bill).

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And the freeness cuts both ways — if I could, I'd happily open my content to Mistral and all the other totally-free/open-source-releasing LLM companies' scrapers. But I can't; they're going into big corpuses or scraped directly by the commercial actors with funds to scrape the whole kit & kaboodle.