[Slackbuilds-users] stop mirroring to github~

[korgman]

On 8/19/25 08:05, Shahab Vahedi via SlackBuilds-users wrote:
> I don't buy into this "it's happening eveywhere.

First: I agree with you. AI usage of data is unethical.

It's not "it's happening everywhere" It's: "you can't stop it."

1. If something is public, it's public for all. For the good guys and the bad guys.
2. Irrelevant: SlackBuilds are not sophisticated. Writing them is painful and time-consuming. AI cannot learn much from them.
3. One way to stop AI from scraping SlackBuilds is to have a password on SlackBuilds.org. This is, of course, absurd, as AI would still scrape data from a SlackBuilds.org user. I am sure the data is already scrapped.They have illegally scraped terabytes of books via torrent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE0A71JzizI
4. Only in a utopia, if AI were run by only by states with transparency (don't laugh I wrote: 'in a utopia'), we could see the training data, etc. Since they are private companies, it's almost impossible to tell them to respect robots.txt.
5. Another 'solution' (it's not for many reasons) is to ban ip's from AI's. see: 3.

I had excluded AI from my site and a) The already scraped b) they ignore it c) they can fake a web crawler d) after months I was thinking? Why? So the AI cannot have my worldview?