Block ChatGPT to prevent my content from being 'stolen'?
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German SEOs alarmed about ChatGPT content theft #
And imagine - German daily newspapers want to be compensated for their oh-so-great work!
Again. The famous “ancillary copyright” is back, or is it not?
Bot blocking - why not? #
Yes, of course - if you don’t want your brand, products, and methods to appear (or appear less) in the language models of the future, you can block some bots like “Common Crawl”.
Have fun with the bot hunt.
OpenAI, for example, will use a normal Bing crawl, with that huge investment, and no longer work with the patchwork of Common Crawl and other subsets.
If you find the cheap journalism, which you’re accused of anyway, particularly worthy of protection, you’re making yourself important there too.
But whether these bots are then the only sources used in language models remains questionable.
Innovation cannot be stopped here either.
A new era of content (re)production is dawning #
In an era where content reproduction with similarities, but also with significant differences has become virtually free and can be done on an arbitrarily large scale, old copyright laws will no longer be applicable.
A time in which soon every consumer will receive an individual “content product” cannot be correctly represented legally with laws from the printing press era.
Bizarre and outdated legal systems #
Only Germany has the absurdity of a one-sided “warning notice system” where no hearing of the other party is necessary. A contradiction to the principles of law. And so we will continue to hear about these bizarre scam schemes from Germany for many years to come, now that everyone probably has an imprint.
In a few decades, the first innovations in law will have happened. Or in a few years, when these have been created and consolidated with significant AI support, an overdue undertaking in the legal behemoth “EU” anyway.
After all, Google has already been punished by the EU for issues from 2008. So I estimate around the year 2037 for a real precedent on the topic of AI. And that will be similarly irrelevant and outdated, given the current speed of innovation.
Yes, block a few bots, if… #
But of course - if you don’t want to appear in the AIs of the future, quickly block a few bots, hoping that they will be used, and then know nothing about your brand.
This text was created only with my human workforce and a cup of tea. The comma errors were corrected by Languagetool. The image of the happy lawyer browsing his old books, without any technical help, was created with Midjourney.