> and getting all your semi-public records and social media activity immediately
> scraped by shady companies and sold to anybody who expresses any interest.
Public content on the Internet should be scrapable. That's what public means.
The fact that my reddit posts were publicly available never bothered me. Even if they were going to be used to train some LMM.
What does bother me is reddit locking up my posts and making exclusive deals with Google to train Google's LMM.
Preventing scraping isn't good for the average user; it is good for the company that wants to take content created by said user, lock it up, and sell it to their buddies.
Public content on the Internet should be scrapable. That's what public means.
The fact that my reddit posts were publicly available never bothered me. Even if they were going to be used to train some LMM. What does bother me is reddit locking up my posts and making exclusive deals with Google to train Google's LMM.
Preventing scraping isn't good for the average user; it is good for the company that wants to take content created by said user, lock it up, and sell it to their buddies.