One of many things that bums me out about AI is whether content I create will be truly appreciated by humans, or will just be fed back into the algorithm.

I often wonder how exactly you'd mitigate this. Further, as a user, I wonder what incentive there is for me to write anything at all online, let alone commenting on forums, if it will just be fed back into an LLM.

Is paywalling or forcing user accounts the solution? That feels antithetical to the reason for the internet at all.

Just musings.

Simply putting up a basic auth wall that says “Enter any password to proceed” would stop all modern crawlers dead in their tracks, afaik. You could make it more defensible to the trivial overcome by putting a rotating / per-source password in the basicauth message, but honestly, I think they’re all coded not to invite a CFAA hacking lawsuit by trying random passwords on password-protected sites :)

If it’s on here it will probably be read by a human. It may also then be fed back as training data but why do you care?