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Notices by Harry Wood (harry_wood@en.osm.town)

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    Harry Wood (harry_wood@en.osm.town)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2026 18:15:31 JST Harry Wood Harry Wood
    in reply to
    • Aral Balkan

    @aral It bugs me sometimes when people react to dumb politicians with "This is a deliberate strategy to... " *insert theory here* (something about making us question the nature of truth is a common one)

    There's no mastermind strategy going on here. He is just as idiotic as he sounds.

    In conversation about 3 months ago from en.osm.town permalink
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    Harry Wood (harry_wood@en.osm.town)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 23:30:24 JST Harry Wood Harry Wood
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    • Børge

    @forteller That's an interesting idea. Focusing on the oldest first. Did you find these can often be closed on the basis that the thing is fixed already? (or just *probably* fixed already if it's badly described)

    In conversation about 7 months ago from en.osm.town permalink
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    Harry Wood (harry_wood@en.osm.town)'s status on Sunday, 30-Nov-2025 08:58:35 JST Harry Wood Harry Wood

    Blogged: Transcript of what I said, or intended to say, for my #sotmeu Dundee talk all about OpenStreetMap Notes.
    https://harrywood.co.uk/blog/2025/11/29/openstreetmap-notes-sotmeu-dundee-talk

    In conversation about 7 months ago from en.osm.town permalink

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      OpenStreetMap Notes – SOTMEU Dundee talk
      Harry Wood's website. Blog, map examples, and assorted other bits and bobs. The blog is probably more interesting than the rest of this site... and the blog isn't very interesting so what does that tell you?
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    Harry Wood (harry_wood@en.osm.town)'s status on Friday, 25-Apr-2025 17:32:10 JST Harry Wood Harry Wood
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    More on the LLM scraper problem https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/03/ai-bots-are-destroying-open-access.html by @gluejar "Thousands of developer hours are being spent on defense against the dark bots and those hours are lost to us forever. We'll never see the wonderful projects and features they would have come up with in that time"

    In conversation about a year ago from en.osm.town permalink

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      AI bots are destroying Open Access
      There's a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard at work destroying the websites of libraries, archives, ...
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    Harry Wood (harry_wood@en.osm.town)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 21:51:08 JST Harry Wood Harry Wood

    Vicious criticism of LLMs from this sysadmin who has to deal with their scrapers: https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html
    The LLM scraper problem seems surprising to me. The makers of big new generative AI systems are mostly big-tech firms. Don't they value their reputation, or even the reputation of the AI concept overall, better than to commission these cowboys to do their scraping? But maybe they've already decided that, due to the copyrights risk, it's best done at arms length via shady intermediaries.

    In conversation about a year ago from en.osm.town permalink

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      Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
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    Harry Wood (harry_wood@en.osm.town)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 21:51:06 JST Harry Wood Harry Wood
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    • Russ Garrett

    @russss Are you saying the data isn't even necessarily being used for training LLMs? The problem is just correlated to rise of LLMs because LLMs are making it a lot easier to write scrapers (and I guess chatGPT will also happily advise on how to bypass mitigations)

    In conversation about a year ago from en.osm.town permalink

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    Harry Wood

    Software engineer somewhat specialised towards ruby on rails and towards back-end data work. Open data & open collaborations. Father of two.https://harrywood.co.uk/

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