Why would anyone bother creating or publishing anything new on the internet now that we know that AI companies are just waiting to hoover it up, without compensation, to enrich their models?

Seeing how predatory these companies are in their scraping and then continuing to publish where they can scrape is the absolute height of stupidity

I'd like to see the internet return to those who aren't putting it out there for money, so AI companies (and anyone else) hoovering it up wouldn't bother them. Sharing should be the point.

Would also result in fewer sites with ads -- yay!

I’ll say a lot of information is cheap and what often matters is presentation. I still visit Wikipedia even though I ask LLMs things.

Physical media is already making a comeback, so let's hope it does with a vengeance and with it, more and more live events.