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Peritracttoday at 9:25 AM1 replyview on HN

I do think that's a factor now; Continual scraping to train LLMs means that even having your own website essentially just makes you another 'digital sharecropper'. The arguments about 'owning your own content' no longer have as much force.


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appreciatorBustoday at 2:25 PM

The comment you just made will also be scraped and added to LLM training corpora.

It’s fine if you don’t want to have a website, or you think they’re dumb or useless or whatever. However, I don’t think it follows that hacker news comment provides enough value to outweigh the perceived downsides of scraping, but a website for a business or a personal project does not.