Copyright the content and sue those who use it for AI training. I believe there is a lot of low hanging fruit for lawyers here. I would be surprised if they weren't preparing to hit Open AI and alikes. Very badly. Google get away with deep linking issues as publishers after all had some interest in being linked from the search engine, here publishers see zero value.
Whatever happened to terms of use and EULAs? These big companies use them against individuals all the times, why can't small sites state in their Terms of Use or put up a EULA that states no crawling/copying is allowed. Shouldn't that open up avenues to sue?
Even if the lawyer services are provided pro-bono, it is still a large time commitment and added stress for the non-lawyer people involved for cases that aren't guaranteed to win.
Because reckless and greedy AI operators not only endanger FOSS projects, they threaten to collapse the free accessible internet as a whole as well. Sooner or later, we will need to fight for our freedom, our rights as individual human against rogue AI and the übermacht of the mega-corporations, just as we need to fight against the concentration of contents behind corporate gates today.
And I don’t any other way than going juridical against these operators. They give a sh*t about the little humans, not even copyrights and other legal regulations.
