Comment Re:Hypocrits (Score 1) 39
but also making sure that we are building and supporting the great work of our creators
That casual phrasing stuck out like a sore thumb for me. The idea that everyone who actually creates new material for the web is somehow doing it just to help out Microsoft seems like peak arrogance, except that with most Big Tech companies I'm sure they'll find a new way to be even more arrogant next week.
Unfortunately this is the logical endgame of "information wants to be free". If you contribute new information then you are simply feeding the huge players and may never get any sort of reward or even credit for your contribution. With the ways that IP laws are currently being interpreted, that includes content you put on a personal website even if you don't choose to grant a liberal licence permitting reuse elsewhere.
The answer, of course, is that training on other people's data without consent should be prohibited, certainly for commercial use. Blocking this form of exploitation might be the closest act to the original spirit and purpose of copyright that we've encountered in many years. Failing to do this will just result in a vicious circle of low-quality, mass-produced content designed purely to game the system and probably itself written by AI and then the big players training their huge predictive models on an ever worsening data set. Anyone actually doing anything useful and creative will be systematically deterred from sharing that work.