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   tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 18:27:36 JST tyil

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   • Scott Williams 🐧

   @vwbusguy@mastodon.online constant relentless overly aggressive scraping, ignoring robots directivesThis only really affects those who self-host, most people who support "open source" use #Github, as they don't care much for freedom at all.lack of attribution, disrespecting licensesThat's the intent of open source licensing. Open source communities promote those actions as being good things, because otherwise you'd be "restricting the freedom of people who want to abuse you". This is the big difference between simply "open source" and actual "free software".
   
   I do agree that LLMs are a cancer on the Internet, and we should do more to stop it. But I find that free software communities are actually getting hurt. Open source communities didn't care about these things all that much, and its oftentimes their contributions that make the problems in IT worse.

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     Scott Williams 🐧 (vwbusguy@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 18:27:37 JST Scott Williams 🐧

     This LLM arms race is really burning through a lot of the built up good will with open source communities for the big tech companies. The constant relentless overly aggressive scraping, ignoring robots directives, lack of attribution, disrespecting licenses, drawing support requests away from community outlets, and just producing bad/wrong/misleading advice are all exhausting.