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@bookwar@fosstodon.orgThis aggressive AI-scraping of FOSS infra is quite radicalizing.
Instead of taxing the rich, we tax the people who do work for free and publish for everyone to use.
I am considering starting a campaign to add
"Any engineer working for a company who was using such a practices is banned for life from participating in any FOSS community" into the default Code of Conduct.
Because if there is one universal evil in FOSS, than that's the one.
@bookwar Hi Aleksandra. Someone I follow boosted this, so it's in my feed.
I have questions on your post.
First - let me clarify that I'm ***NOT*** an AI shill or on the hypetrain. I'm very much a skeptic of it, still, even though I have occasionally made use of it.
My question is more around why the scorn if AI propagates the info that you're already publishing freely?
I don't understand where "evil" comes in.
I'm *not* trying to argue, I just want to better understand what you're thinking.
Thank you for taking the time to read and (hopefully) respond. 
@pdxmisfit In this case, the problem is not the copyright.
Indeed the information is open and is _designed_ to be shared. Almost everyone, take Wikipedia, or Linux Kernel or OpenStreetMaps, or Fedora intentionally provide ways for anyone interested to fetch a full archive of the data.
But instead of using those effective ways of fetching the public information, AI people use completely unnecessary technics of scraping the content, which causes significant costs to projects who publish it.
Not only they disrespect the work of the people storing and providing the information. The damage they do is so high that the open projects now have to artificially create "paywalls" and hide the open non-copyrighted content behind them.
This is the damage done to the core of our existence - the ability to share the non-monetized knowledge, code, or art, without a middleman trying to assign cost to it.