Neither of which address my problem: how do I share with people generally without sharing with AI?
I'm sure a standard not unlike robots.txt will emerge. That might give some comfort, although I would remain sceptical given that many crawlers refuse to honour it.
Or, better, do what I've actually done and make the websites private, invite-only.
> I would remain sceptical given that many crawlers refuse to honour it.
yeah, a robots.txt-like solution isn't adequate for just that reason. I don't rely on robots.txt alone to stop crawlers because of your observation here.
I've been doing art for decades, and so much of what I did in the past got merged into culture without much in the way of remuneration, even when I did get paid. Commercial and fine artists who make money off their works are rare, and the main benefactors were large corporations long before OpenAI came to pick the bones clean.
As we circle the event horizon (personally, I'm with the people who argue we passed the point of no return back in the 1930s), it will get more difficult to tell what's going to happen next, but everything only has to be added to the training data once. To a determined attacker, there is no data fortress that can't be raided, and it only has to be raided once.
The old hacker motto, "Information wants to be free", wasn't an ideal to work towards, it was a statement of fact: keeping information locked up is hard and it only has to get loose once.
The problem of how to get paid has always been the main problem facing people who work. I suspect with compensation, like everything else, we'll do the right thing after we've exhausted all other options.