This really makes me want to try something similar with content from my own website.
I shut it down a while ago because the number of bots overtake traffic. The site had quite a bit of human traffic (enough to bring in a few hundred bucks a month in ad revenue, and a few hundred more in subscription revenue), however, the AI scrapers really started ramping up and the only way I could realistically continue would be to pay a lot more for hosting/infrastructure.
I had put a ton of time into building out content...thousands of hours, only to have scrapers ignore robots, bypass cloudflare (they didn't have any AI products at the time), and overwhelm my measly infrastructure.
Even now, with the domain pointed at NOTHING, it gets almost 100,000 hits a month. There is NO SERVER on the other end. It is a dead link. The stats come from Cloudflare, where the domain name is hosted.
I'm curious if there are any lawyers who'd be willing to take someone like me on contingency for a large copyright lawsuit.
What's not clear from the study (at least skimming it) is if they always started the ball rolling with ground truth passages or if they chained outputs from the model until they got to the end of the book. I strongly suspect the latter would hopelessly corrupt relatively quickly.
It seems like this technique only works if you have a copy of the material to work off of, i.e. enter a ground truth passage, tell the model to continue it as long as it can, and then enter the next ground truth passage to continue in the next session.
djhn|24 days ago
Grok and Deepmind IIRC didn’t require tricks.
eek2121|24 days ago
I shut it down a while ago because the number of bots overtake traffic. The site had quite a bit of human traffic (enough to bring in a few hundred bucks a month in ad revenue, and a few hundred more in subscription revenue), however, the AI scrapers really started ramping up and the only way I could realistically continue would be to pay a lot more for hosting/infrastructure.
I had put a ton of time into building out content...thousands of hours, only to have scrapers ignore robots, bypass cloudflare (they didn't have any AI products at the time), and overwhelm my measly infrastructure.
Even now, with the domain pointed at NOTHING, it gets almost 100,000 hits a month. There is NO SERVER on the other end. It is a dead link. The stats come from Cloudflare, where the domain name is hosted.
I'm curious if there are any lawyers who'd be willing to take someone like me on contingency for a large copyright lawsuit.
WarmWash|23 days ago
It seems like this technique only works if you have a copy of the material to work off of, i.e. enter a ground truth passage, tell the model to continue it as long as it can, and then enter the next ground truth passage to continue in the next session.