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The System Reference Document 5.2--the tool which helps developers create third-party content using the Dungeons & Dragons core rules...

This is my take too. In the end we vote with our wallets.

I mean, the Pandora's box has been opened at this point. I think AI is here to stay. That said, as a consumer I chose to not buy AI...

Sure man, you do you. When it comes to what this thread is still kinda sorta about? I'll support people, who want to make a decent...

Sure, walkn into your FLGS, find the info you need, put it back and don't contribute to keeping the shop open. Oh wait...

so you are ok with me staying in your house for 2 weeks out of the year then?

Sure. I just put myself in the shoes of someone who depends on that sale to put food on their kids plates.

Then no, its plainly unethical.

The loophole is the "repackage and sell scraped data" element.

Unjust enrichment.

Thanks for the link. It looks like a large number of my dad's books were used as well.

I would. They further exasperate income inequality They trick bosses into believing they can fire people They use tons of power and...

This is just one source -- that bigass pile of published books -- there's a lot of stuff beyond this.

The Atlantic had a lookup. My books were there. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

I want my two dollars. Either my material is valuable to LLMs and thus I should be compensated, or it’s not useful and they shouldn’t...