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Walling Off the Open Internet to Stop AI May End Up Breaking Everything Else

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by aorth

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Most of this reads as disingenuous to me. Not all of us have the capacity or skill to scale so we need to take drastic measures to keep services up.
I do believe in and love the open web. But the AI scrapers need to change, not me! They're the ones with the money and the 10x engineers (apparently). Read my sitemap and crawl my content from one IP, don't just haphazardly crawl and click every damn link and search term from hundreds or thousands of IPs every day!

by jnxx

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The argument is like it is unethical to lock my front door because this also stops people which genuinely only want to enter to have a look at my living room.
That's not how boundaries work.

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by HardwareLust

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by hn_acker

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The original title is:
> We're Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else

by blibble

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> We’re creating a two-tier internet: sites that can be found and accessed through modern tools, and sites that can’t. Guess which tier will thrive?
the former tier will shortly be 100% AI slop, so the latter
personally I'd be willing to sacrifice the internet if it renders generative AI impotent
there are many possible futures that are bleaker than a world without internet

by JohnFen

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genAI itself is rapidly rendering large portions of the web worthless and/or unsustainable, so it seems that the web is doomed either way.