Wouldn't it severely affect SEO? I don't know, but I assume, that scrambling article in to a word soup and exposing it to crawlers would not solve the SEO problem. Would it?
It sounds like a loosing battle to manually keep track of all bots and their deployment IPs that generate datasets that LLM's might use or start using in the future.
There must be a legal solution, a licence that forbids the use of content for training without explicit permission from the author.
Seeing as you are knowledgeable on the subject, may be you know if there is a licence, like creative commons, that will allow all the usual intelectual property uses except in AI training?
Or may be an old licence that is so strict that it will protect from AI shenanigans by default?
If we are getting philosophical, I have a spicy take of my own.
LLMs are advertised as 'language models', as if researchers coded in the Torah and the syntax of language of Eden in to a machine, and then it revealed all the truths of the world just by talking to itself. Just like AlphaZero did with chess.
But in fact they are not 'language models'. They are models of what _people_ are saying. And people are, in fact, individual writers each providing their opinion and expertise. So it is a model of what Pete, Jack and Sarah said on the subject.
Except, Pete did it for add revenue, Jack to attract customers and Sarah for reputation. They won't get any of it, so they will stop writing. And so will end LLM's knowledge of novel subjects, because all it's knowledge is stolen IP. Thus, IP law is needed to protect actual producers of value.
Totally, you still hear that feudals didn't deserve to be rich, because serfs created all the value. But the falsity of this claim become obvious as enclosures enabled feudals to use fewer and fewer serfs on their land.