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corbet

Jonathan Corbet

“Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” an internal Microsoft document cited in the case read, adding “almost no one intended for content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they compensated for its use.”

https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/
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jimedrand@waltuh.cyou

James Ed Randson opensuse fedora linux ubuntu tuxserver

@corbet They admit that they’re trying to destroy the web and they already did. Not only the web, but also the earth. AI data centers? Sounds like water waster to me. And they produce Co2 so much. That’s why some people had rejected the offer to sell their land to developers who want to build the unnecessary data center.

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dfs_comedy@mastodon.social

🇨🇦 Dianne S

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@corbet Put that on LWN and get out your popcorn... 🙂

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Arapalla@aus.social

Arapalla

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@corbet

Bubble popping in 5, 4, 3,....

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Sea1Am@mastodon.social

Sea

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@Arapalla @corbet

Omg, please!

I'M READY!

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xorgrox@mastodon.social

xorox

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@corbet And so the authors

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alice_pea_3526@mastodon.social

Alice Pea (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️

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@corbet Not only are they stealing shit off of sites for profit, but they are straignt up DDoSing the sites they stole from.

Just had this happen on my blog site yesterday. Over 10,000 requests per minute, and probably more.

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desantis@mastodon.bida.im

loStronzoRocco

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@corbet My response/rant on the

gemini://enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-09-18.gmi

TL;DR
If you or your organization uses ANY KIND of “AI”/LLM, that makes you and/or the company responsible for using and abusing stolen goods. If you don’t stop immediately, you are/the company is a thief. There is no gray area and there is no wiggle room.

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