If you want to ruin someone's web experience based on what kind of thing they are, rather than the content of their character, consider that you might be the baddies.

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mrweasel 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you're constantly being harassed by someone and despite your best efforts, nothing is being done to help you, quite the opposite in fact, tons of people cheer your assailant on in the name of profit and progress, it's only natural that you lash out.

It's not all that productive, it's an act of desperation. If you can't stop the enemy, at least you can make their action more costly.

One positive outcome I could see it AI companies becoming more critical of their training data.

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lifeformed 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What "content of character" do you ascribe to a web scraper?

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jstanley 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You don't, that's why it's unethical to block them.

If you keep getting harrassed by people wearing black hoodies, would it be ethical to start taking countermeasures against all people who wear black hoodies?

	▲	lelanthran 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If they are coming to my door to harass me, then yes, it makes sense to take countermeasures against all black-hoodie wearers when I see them at the door.

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Apocryphon 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You’re gonna have to try harder to sneak in the a priori assumption that LLMs have any character beyond which corporation deployed them.