> Does it really matter that meat bags find out about your message to the world through your own website or through an LLM?

Yes, it matters a lot.

You know of authors by name because you read their works under their name. This has allowed them to profit (not necessarily in direct monetary value) and publish more works. Chucking everything into a LLM takes the profit from individual authors and puts them into pockets of gigacorporations.

Not to mention the facts the current generation of LLMs will straight up hallucinate things, sometimes turning the message you're trying to send on its head.

Then there's the question of copyright. I can't pirate a movie, but Facebook can pirate whole libraries, create a LLM and sell it and it's OK? I'd have a lot less of an issue if this was done ethically.

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kulahan 5 days ago | parent [-]

Does it really matter when, previously, the exact same problem existed in the form of Google Cards in your search results? ;)

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nvader 5 days ago | parent [-]

The presense of an earlier problem does not solve, or make less severe, a later problem.

Why are you winking?

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kulahan 4 days ago | parent [-]

Because it’s not a very serious comment, and yes, of course it makes future problems less severe. That’s such a weird and impossible-to-defend take?

“Well we’ve had this exact problem for decades but now the same problem is instead coming from elsewhere so this is now completely different” makes zero sense.

As an aside, a wink should send a pretty obvious message. I think you’re taking this generic internet conversation too personally.

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ninalanyon 4 days ago | parent [-]

It's not completely different, we simply failed to fix it the first time around.

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kulahan 4 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, my point all along is that it’s not different at all, so it’s a weird complaint to hear so often when it was relatively few complaining about the cards.

	▲	tpxl 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The preview in search results has the author (web page) prominently displayed. LLMs dont (and likely never will).