This is indeed deeply insidious. As much as I am against the development of LLMs for slop purposes, and (if I could) would refuse my works for that purpose, these companies have access to mountains of cash. Why not approach publishers/authors and buy the AI training rights? Ans: laziness and greed.
Nicholas KaufmannIn other words, with each page you access onscreen, Google’s AI slurps up the content from the other side. It’s an insidious new way for Google to get around having to pay for the content they train their AI on. (6/6)