MoonSong
Rules-lawyering drama queen but not a munchkin
I'm faced with more and more "checking you aren't a bot" messages when loading websites. Many sites are implementing these, I asume to prevent crawling. Specially ones that don't particularly handle critical information. Sadly keeping AI scraping bots awaay will also prevent bots from the internet archive from backing up the web.The problem with that is that once you have removed the actual websites from the interaction, you remove any incentive for the website to exist because it gets no traffic. Then, once all the actual human-created websites have been driven away, where does ChatGPT get its information from? It's not online, because there's no incentive for anybody to put it online.
I assume that at some point websites will be forced to develop the ability to stop ChatGPT scraping them through a combination of technology and legislation. And at that point, ChatGPT becomes less useful than using a reputable website directly. Things go full-circle and we're back to the early internet again.