Have LLM companies actually done anything meaningful about…
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Have LLM companies actually done anything meaningful about scraped content ownership
Been thinking about this a lot lately. There's been some movement, like Anthropic settling over pirated books last year and a few music labels getting deals, done, but it still feels like most of it is damage control after getting sued rather than proactive change. The robots.txt stuff is basically voluntary and apparently a lot of crawlers just ignore it anyway. And the whole burden being on creators to opt out rather than AI companies needing to opt in feels pretty backwards to me. Shutterstock pulling in over $100M in AI licensing revenue in 2024 shows the market exists, so it's not like licensing is impossible. I work in SEO and content marketing so this hits close to home. A lot of the sites I work on have had their content scraped with zero compensation or even acknowledgment. The ai.txt and llms.txt stuff sounds promising in theory but if the big players aren't honoring it then what's the point. Curious where other devs land on this, do you think the current wave of lawsuits will actually, force meaningful change or is it just going to drag on for another decade with nothing really resolved?
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Been thinking about this a lot lately. There's been some movement, like Anthropic settling over pirated books last year and a few music labels getting deals, done, but it still feels like most of it is damage control after getting sued rather than proactive change. The robots.txt stuff is basically voluntary and apparently a lot of crawlers just ignore it anyway. And the whole burden being on creators to opt out rather than AI companies needing to opt in feels pretty backwards to me. Shutterstock pulling in over $100M in AI licensing revenue in 2024 shows the market exists, so it's not like licensing is impossible. I work in SEO and content marketing so this hits close to home. A lot of the sites I work on have had their content scraped with zero compensation or even acknowledgment. The ai.txt and llms.txt stuff sounds promising in theory but if the big players aren't honoring it then what's the point. Curious where other devs land on this, do you think the current wave of lawsuits will actually, force meaningful change or is it just going to drag on for another decade with nothing really resolved?
#programming #dev #technology
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