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Re:Reddit is taking over Google by unclebucknasty on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @08:08PM (#40071533)
>intentional misspelling and curse words will start to be used to "scare off" AIs and bots

If they deem the content valuable enough, I get the feeling that they'd instead just correct for it (e.g. auto-correct mispellings; replace and/or omit curse words).

It may get to the point wherein the only way to secure content is to hide it behind a paywall or otherwise make it non-public, then forbid via the TOS. There'd probably need to be court challenges even then.

I also wonder if the LinkedIn case involving scraping (wherein the ruling was essentially that public data was fair game), will be re-tested in the age of AI.

Re:Reddit is taking over Google by StressedDev on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @09:17PM (#40071997)
Criminals, SPAMers, foreign governments, PR firms, unethical corporations, etc. are not going to be stopped by a terms of service document. This will ignore it and keep on spreading disinformation. If AI helps them do this, they will use AI to do it.
Re:Reddit is taking over Google by unclebucknasty on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @09:29PM (#40072049)
I'm referring to protecting content from ingestion for AI model training.