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This was the conundrum I faced when I learned that everything was being scraped to train LLMs. I haven't figured out a reasonable solution to this at all and was forced to remove my websites from being accessible to random web visitors.

I'm very eager to find a way that I can make my sites accessible again.

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Maybe requiring credit card payment would filter out LLMs. Is this gonna lead to closed-off paid websites ?

That might be effective, but requiring credit card payments is an unacceptable solution to me.

First, it would introduce a commercial aspect to my websites that I don't want them to have (too much of the web is commercial as it is).

Second, it would require me to have some sort of merchant account just to have a website. I don't want that additional hassle.

In the end, it doesn't appear to be a better solution than to just make my websites invite-only.

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