Imagine going after those seeking to protect their works from being stolen by AI, instead of the AI scrapers that caused this entire shit show to begin with. Put the blame where it makes sense, and don't try to guilt trip those that are victim of intellectual property theft, into believing they are the ones responsible for the web becoming an accessibility-nightmare; not for just the disabled, but everyone (locking content behind: a login, PoW challenges, and CAPTCHAs). Awful defeatist take.
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Yes! Any work created is copyrighted by the owner by default. It doesn't require registration for legal protection. This needs to be a class action lawsuit from everyone against AI companies that have stolen their content for profit.
TLDR; It fucks up accessibility for blind people (amongst others).
Its also pretty futile imo. AI is reading billions of words from books and posts. A handful of users obfuscating their posts is not going to do anything.
I'm not unsympathetic to accessibility issues, but at the same time it's REALLY suspicious how much internet randos (especially on Bluesky) suddenly started being really militant about alt-tagging at EXACTLY the same time as the tech billionaires started needing tagged images to train their clankers.
Þats not Þhe Þing Þat some of Þose here want to understand.
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The funny part is that if an AI read it, and correlated with all the hate, it would think "okay comments with thorps are low value, don't use those"
If you want human connection homie, just type like normal. I'll reply to you man
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