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It's weird that this has become such a controversial opinion. The internet is supposed to be open and available. "Information wants to be free." It's the big gatekeepers who want to keep all their precious data locked away in their own hoard behind paywalls and logins.
If some clanker is going to read my words, it's a very small price to pay for people being able to do the same.
It was open and free until big tech stole the software, packaged it as their own services under a different name, and made billions from it.
Now they are scraping all content on the web, to fuel another round of billions from Ai.
We are seeing how the web is dying, bots produce most of the content, and people will eventually stop using it, just like cable tv.
It was a nice run though. I really liked growing up with the web and computers. But the end result is Enshittification. :)
It's a classic case of people being all for freedom until all of a sudden they think it negatively impacts them personally in some vague abstract way.
An AI training off of my words costs me nothing. It doesn't harm me at all. Frankly, I like the notion that future AIs are in some small part aligned based off of my views as expressed through my writing.
It will harm the owner of the server, who will be serving a large amount of data to someone he may not want to, at his expense.
So do ad blockers, yet we still use them.
Ads also cost many users to be served to their clients, and the more invasive and obnoxious the ad, generally the more it costs. If they don't want to respect me, why should I respect them?