[utbabya]

This honor system mostly worked at scale because interests align, which seems to be no longer the case.

Does information no longer wants to be free now? Maybe internet, just like social media was just a social experiment at the end, albeit a successful one. Thanks GenAI.

[egypturnash]

“Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away.” - the full aphorism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free

[windexh8er]

Can the Terms of Service of individual content creators leverage a "death of a thousand cuts" model to produce a legal honeypot which would require organizations like Perplexity to be bound up in 10s of thousands of conciliation court cases?

Big Tech has hidden behind ToS for years. Now, it seems as though it only works for them, but not against. It seems as though this would be easy to orchestrate and prove forcing these companies into a legal nightmare or risk insolvent business stature due to the high load of cases filed against.

Why couldn't something like this be used to flip the table? A conciliation brigading, of sorts.

[Eisenstein]

Because lawyers are expensive and big tech companies have lots of them. Because it takes a ton of time and effort to sue someone. Because you need to show standing, which means you need to be able to demonstrate you lost something of value by their actions. Because the power imbalance is heavily weighted towards a corporation. Because the way to deal with such things should be legislation and not court decisions. And lots more reasons...