I strongly advocate for slapping a login page everywhere on the internet to wall off bots. As companies driven by greed maliciously snub robots.txt, we have no choice but to wall off the internet. People have always intended to help others when they put a recipe online or a fix to a problem. They could never fathom a day would come when their content would fatten up morally shipwrecked companies. Companies should have thought of a way to compensate authors for copyrighted works and give credits at the very, very least. But, LLMs by design cannot currently attribute outputs to specific works. It's outrageous that in seconds they ingest and thieve years of human labor. And go on carrying business like nothing happened. They just don't care. We find ourselves in a situation where we should starve LLMs until avaricious CEOs consider that right and wrong exists and we should choose the right path. This is the weaker option if we want to send a strong signal. It would have been far better to boycott these companies upfront. With nearly 1% of cloudflare traffic being bots, cloudflare advocates for intelligent bot trapping by spinning considerate honeypots. This is the way forward. They steal from us, repackage our content and sell to us the same thing at some $200 per month. We should be very foolish to fall into the trap, pay and glorify these buccaneers. Their hands have become too red for them to backtrack. Celebrating a company's 50 years with a spotlight on looted artifact is deep. Ballmer said in the year 2000 on being sued by the US and 20 states: "Being the object of a lawsuit, effectively, or a complaint from your government is a very awkward, uncomfortable position to be in ... People assume if the government brought a complaint that there's really a problem, and your ability to say we're a good, proper, moral place is tough. It's actually tough, even though you feel that way about yourselves." [1] Two and a half decades later, we see the same man sitting with like-minded people touting the product that plagiarized nearly all of extant humanity's written legacy as the epitome of perfection. Lizards never learn.
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