That is certainly true. But that is not how these work 99% of the time. This post was originated by "search".
I think a distinction needs to be made between ingesting for LLM training and ingesting / crawling because a human asked it to during an inference session.
I have been talking about the latter, agree the former is abusive.
LLM finds out about it from me, when I ask it to go to the link.
You don’t accuse browsers of “somehow find[ing] the existence of those pages”. How does a browser know what page to visit?
The user tells it to.
If I prompt an LLM “go to example.net and summarize the page” how is that any different from me typing example.net in a browser URL bar?