Will we try to prevent google (and other) scrapers?
The headline is pretty much a summary. “Google Says It will Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI” https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/07/google-says-it-will-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-ai/
The first question is obviously; do we as a community on Lemmy even want to try and stop them from scraping our content here? If no; well. ok then.
If yes; how? I’m not sure if “preventing access” to unregistered users would really prevent this. Pretty sure google has enough money and manpower to figure out a way to make it their mission to get around “can only accessed by members” content.
Why would we want to stop that? It’s a public forum, so it should get scraped.
I personnaly agree with you. If content is not supposed to be searchable, maybe don’t post it online. It is a different problem for writers, artists and possibly even journalists.
But I think it’s a fair debate - unfortuantely one that was one (or the only?) reason the whole reddit API debacle startetd.
On the other hand maybe Lemmy should allow certain communities allow an “only for members” view?
I think it will eventually be scrapped one way or another. If not Google some other company will.
Literally already posting to a public space everyone everywhere can access if they were so inclined. I don’t see how scraping that same content would make any difference, unless it significantly impacted site stability.
Really hard to prevent this, as copying its contents to other places is more or less the point of the Fediverse.
