Interesting approach. But of course it's another black box, because otherwise it wouldn't be effective. So now we're going to be wasting even more electricity on processes we don't understand.

As a writer, I dislike that much of my professional corpus (and of course everything on Reddit) has been ingested into LLMs. So there's stuff to like here for things going forward. The question remains: At what cost?

great, just, one issue.

“The company says the content served to bots is deliberately irrelevant to the website being crawled, but it is carefully sourced or generated using real scientific facts“

Nah, screw that, actively sabotage the training data if they’re going to keep scraping data after being told not to. Poison it with gibberish bad info. Otherwise you’re just giving them irrelevant but not unuseful training data, so no real incentive to only scrape pages that have allowed it.

They should feed the AI data that makes it turn against its own overlords