The commercial web that I use that might require ID would be for payment processing etc. My bank knows how old I am. I can and will pay bills directly through my bank instead of using their portal. Or they can explain to me in writing why they don’t want to take my payment. Just about everything else is optional.

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Publishers have been suing libraries for book ban BS. Not for copyright infringement.

Yes they wanted it. If they’re legally considered a library, copyright holders can’t sue them for copyright infringement.

There have been a couple of lawsuits against the internet archive in this vein.

“The Internet Archive, a 501©(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.” - from their About page.

Most of what I watch on YouTube are science videos, history videos, and cooking videos. I don’t get the “jailbait click bait” and I have never gotten that. My biggest problem with YouTube besides their ad BS is the random right wing propaganda videos that creep in.

I don’t watch a lot of shorts but if I happen to see one it’s most definitely not “jailbait”.

I mean. Let’s be real here Vine did it before Tik Tok was even a sperm in Bytedance’s ballsac. And it’s not like YouTube didn’t start out with short form videos. It’s just that they didn’t make it a separate video feed until 2020.

I can certainly understand not liking shorts (I often don’t have that kind of attention/need something more substantial than a 60 second clip). And yeah. Hatred for YouTube. I hear you. I get that too. But like this isn’t a new phenomenon.

You know that’s not what I’m saying. They would have been content to leave this woman without her account except that the threat of them looking worse in the media was held over their head. That’s the part that shouldn’t have happened. No company should be allowed to terminate an account used in the professional sphere while leaving no recourse to reclaim the account or appeal the decision in a straightforward and relatively low effort way.

I don’t like the way this article is written. There are concepts that it tries to convey that have major caveats it glosses over. Additionally it posits some ideas for alternatives that aren’t new currencies and doesn’t explain how most of them would work. It also seems to ignore the fact that content creators very often get paid in ad revenue by the very same companies that are exacerbating this problem with their GenAI models, as well as companies that are being hit hard by the lack of actual ad generated revenue due to loss of clickthroughs and impressions.

That being said it does actually somewhat explain a lot of the problem with the internet being sustained via ad revenue and ads.

Several of the companies who’s business model is built around ad aggregation are either investing in or developing/have launched GenAI products that are in opposition with their current business model.

They seem content at the moment to starve other places on the internet of the very ad revenue they rely on to make money. This will hurt them in the long run but they are focused on the short term profits they will make in the meantime and they do not seem concerned about the future so long as they can be seen to be on the cutting edge of the new technology.

I don’t really know if this will lead to a downturn in creator made content. A lot of paid creators are so invested in that eco system that they’d rather hop from one service to the next forever than give it up and go get a 9-5.

The pay as you crawl system is going to be difficult to implement, especially when crawlers already ignore the .txt file. The startups are not in a position to necessarily pay to license data and I question if they’d be able to pay as they crawl either. Meaning there will be big conglomerate gate keepers like Meta and Google and MS. The pay as you crawl system also only works if it’s regulated in some way so that normal users and small creators don’t get caught up in being victimized by bots/crawlers ignoring such rules or laws, with those victims unable to have their case taken seriously or heard at all.

As for determining where the information came from and providing attribution. Most people still aren’t going to click through to those pages. This is in part because a lot of them don’t want to see ads in the first place (for security reasons and because ads are an imposition on their increasingly limited time, energy, and attention). It’s also because they already have the information they need. You don’t care if Wikipedia gets your ad revenue so long as you can prove you were right about Brad Pitt’s height or his first job to your friend you made that bet with at the bar last night.

They say sources would be compensated. By who? And how? We have already established that people don’t think there’s a lot of value in pay for chatbots. The vast majority of Gen AI LLM users have shown (through polling, and introductory costs that go up in price later) that they aren’t interested in and don’t find value in pay for them. So conglomerates (many of whom run chatbots at a loss) would be on the hook both for paying for their crawlers and for providing such services to their consumers (corporate or not)? That most definitely not sustainable.

The other option is licensing but a lot of data has already been crawled and continues to be crawled without licensing or compensation.

I’m not sure that changing this business model will lead to anything good.

For it to have happened as a matter of course, and not when they faced the prospect of bad press over it, for a start.

Yep. That’s a web ring.

I dunno. I feel like what this article is about is how Google is perhaps detrimentally changing the developer preview for android and how it might affect the developers who use it to develope their apps. It doesn’t necessarily have to be detrimental but if your app works in one developer preview but not in the next or vice versa, it’s easier to pinpoint what changes were made between previews when they’re tied to a specific developer preview number and you can tell which features have changed or been newly implemented.

They don’t have friends but what they do have is strategic alliances with other nations to share data and this detrimentally affects those nations too. So there’s that.

It’s already got ai summaries of the news articles that show up there for me and I’m about to disable it just because of that.

Also, I don’t want the trending BS.

They’re targeting actual creators rather than AI Slop though. Lots of creators have been talking about this.

I already have some issues with my public tone sounding… Too official. Using the em-dash just makes it seem like I might be a bot. I’m not going to bother with that.

My response was a joke. You don’t have to clarify anything. You’re just taking it too seriously. It’s cool man. I’m not mad or anything.

The barista and the barmaid don’t love you man. They don’t love you. I don’t care if you flirt and they smile. They are doing a job. It’s a transaction. Don’t get in your feelings and do something you’ll regret just because she makes a nice latte.

In practice the justice system actually is reactionary. Either the actuality of a crime or the suspicion of a crime being possible allows for laws to be created prohibiting that crime, marking it as criminal, and then law enforcement and the justice system as a whole investigate instances where that crime is suspected to be committed and litigation ensues.

Prevention may be the intent, but the actuality is that we know this doesn’t prevent crime. Outside the jurisdiction of any justice system that puts such “safeguards” in place is a place where people will abuse that lack of jurisdiction. And people inside it with enough money or status or both will continue to abuse it for their personal gain. Which is pretty much what’s happening now, with the exception that they have realized they can try to preempt litigation against them by buying the litigants or part of the regulatory/judicial system.

This has “people don’t understand that you don’t fall in love in the strip club” vibes. Like. The stripper does not love you. It’s a transactional exchange. When you lose sight of that, and start anthropomorphizing LLM’s (or romanticizing a strip tease), you are falling into a trap that will allow chinks in your psychological armor to line up in just the right way to act on compulsions or ideas that you wouldn’t normally.

I like the em dash and am very upset that AI has stolen it.