I looked at his bork.php script. It's a bit simple-minded with pretty limited vocabulary, so I don't think it'll have all that much effect on the AI training.

I just give Facebook's bots (and many other user-agents) a "403 Forbidden" response and go about my day.

That should add at least $250B to OpenAI's valuation!!!!

"Please find me people who have quit LinkedIn because of their disgust over how crappy it had become."

"OK. I'll get right on that..."

And clearly, that robot had been trained on vodka-soaked Russians...

OMG, that is one of the shittiest songs ever. The lyrics are like stream-of-consciousness from a pothead.

You're assuming the downloaders are well-written. But they themselves are probably AI-generated and might download the song thousands of times... just like the stupid AI scrapers were doing to my git repo until I took counter-measures.

Also, I wouldn't put it past AI song generators to artificially generate some streaming revenue... why not?

How many of those 3 million streams were other AIs hoping to use the music as training input?

At least in Canada, non-cash transactions are not rounded. There's no need nor justification to round credit-card transactions.

Yes, in the big scheme of things, the savings are tiny. But pennies are really annoying and most end up in jars or drawers somewhere rather than circulating anyway. So might as well ditch them and the tiny savings is just a bonus.

We'd be drawn-and-quartered instead.

You just round the final total to the nearest 5 cents if someone pays cash. That is what happens in Canada.

Electronic boarding passes are fine, if they're just bar codes in a PDF. Then people with smart phones can use their phone, and people without can print them.

Forcing people to use an app is simply trying to spy on them.

Ah yes, reminds me of the bad old days of the first PDP-8 virus:

"Your bank account has been compromised. To restore security, toggle in the following sequence on your PDP-8 front panel: 110101-010010 111110-000000 ..."

On the one hand, I think music copyright collectives can go a bit overboard (watch some of Rick Beato's YouTube videos where he talks about copyright abuse.)

On the other hand, anything that can damage the parasitic generative-AI industry makes me happy... so... yeah.