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erronis

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2. As long as anybody can browse the web and collect data this risk is everywhere.

Wed Dec 3, 2025, 05:53 PM

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It's not just the large search engine/AI consumers. Spiders/harvesters/whatevers have existed for decades and retrieved content that should not have been exposed. I ran a few such engines to pull data from US government sites (open platforms) but I do know that many organizations harvest far afield, ignoring the niceties such as "robots.txt".

Yes, we could try and punish these "too big to fail" companies but we know that won't happen. The cats are out of the bag and post-facto punishment or old-fashioned legalese won't put them back.

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Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator [View all] erronis Wednesday OP

The copyright infringement has been going on for as long as there've been illegally trained genAI tools. highplainsdem Wednesday #1

As long as anybody can browse the web and collect data this risk is everywhere. erronis Wednesday #2

The creatives fighting this aren't giving up, and shouldn't. The robber barons deserve punishment, highplainsdem Wednesday #3

Agree. IP theft is unethical (and illegal). The recording industry foisted DRM and $50,000 fines erronis Wednesday #4

The moral is that this will destroy morale. DavidDvorkin Wednesday #5

Already having to fight this nonsense. People stealing from us left and right. mucholderthandirt Thursday #6

It's bad enough jfz9580m Thursday #7