I keep thinking of the problem of LLM companies scraping private websites to the degree that hosting costs make them to expensive to continue.
At what point do we just kind of, move all the human stuff to a kind of dark-web situation?
@vampiress this problem doesn’t have a technical solution
it could be handled with regulation, for example LLM companies paying per GB downloaded into a fund, and hosting companies getting paid out of that fund with refunds they have to give to their customers
@thomasfuchs Wait. Guillotines are a technology! Does that count as a technological solution?
@thomasfuchs @vampiress I think this is broadly the direction things will end up going, although with publishers rather than hosting companies setting the fee per-request and receiving the funds. I don’t know that I’m even against it as it could also lead to trivial per-article pricing from news publications rather than their current doomed model of selling ad space and tracking cookies.
@jon @vampiress people have tried to introduce micropayments on the web for 30 years, it’s not going to work this time either