Most new content is scraped and reposted on dozens of copycat sites within minutes of being posted. Pinterest.com may have blocked gptbot, but MySketchyPinterestClone.net hasn't, and has all the same content.

Even without all those, suppose Washington Post publishes a big exclusive story, there are going to be many websites that paraphrase the article and likely link to it, many of which don't block GPT bot. Even without the exact words, with multiple sources GPT should be able to easily figure out the original story. I don't see blocking helpful in such cases.

This. I think it's wildly overlooked by people. Isn't this how even government agencies do it?

Regardless of where you stand on the LLM vs Copyright debate, that 3rd party would clearly be violating copyright by selling unlicensed content, though?

How clear is it who owns the copyright?

The creator owns the copyright.

Yes but if two websites show the same content, how do you prove you're the creator?

The legal system has this figured out

The legal system also figured out that if person A invents X, then person B cannot possibly independently have figured out X, see the patent system.

If a third party poses themselves as a network operator (basically, acts as a proxy/dumb pipe) or a library (if they have a cache) they aren't liable, are they? I think they aren't because proxy and VPN providers, or CloudFlare's 1.1.1.1, or The Internet Archive are AFAIK not generally considered liable in any sort of infringement.

> The Internet Archive are AFAIK not generally considered liable in any sort of infringement.

Wasn't there a case earlier this year that found the Internet Archive liable for copyright infringement?

Oh, I wasn't aware. Thank you for pointing out. From what I've read, even though there's an injunction, IA was going to appeal, so I hope this isn't exactly over yet?

Yes, this (and that I don't trust the bots) is why I've removed my websites from being publicly accessible. It's the only way I can think of to be sure I'm not contributing to these models in any meaningful way.