Is it possible to blog in the AI era?

I write short stories every now and then and I throw them online. I also have a tech blog, where I moan about the decisions software I use make and with my “infinite wisdom”, I tell them what they should be doing instead.

I used to host both on Medium, but Medium got greedy. Then it was WordPress, but now even they’re trying to be greedy bastards and use my shit for training AI.

Some would argue that WordPress paid hosting will exempt me from the AI training, but for less than 100 visitors a year, it’s not really worth the expense.

So what is the solution? I ask the greater minds of this community for suggestions.

  • eveninghere@beehaw.org
    24·
    7 months ago

    I think you should clarify the problem first.

    Privacy? You lose your privacy the moment you publish your blog anyway.

    Is it visibility? You never expected Google to show your blog in most cases.

    AI training? You could self-host and hope companies respect your robot.txt. But what’s the actual problem if you released your blog to the public in the first place? Anybody could’ve copy & pasted your blog also before this AI era.

    • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
      41·
      7 months ago

      Privacy?

      Privacy is of course my major concern, hence posting to this community. But not tinfoil hat level.

      visibility?

      I’m happy to have my stuff indexed by Google, in fact, I want it to be.

      AI training?

      I’ll take that for 500!

      Anybody could’ve copy & pasted your blog also before this AI era.

      Plagiarism has been an issue since before Confucius was copied by Baffledus. But the cream still rose to the top. However in this AI era, everything is buried as its all just considered a part of the source data.

      robot.txt.

      Stories keep popping up about AI ignoring robots.

        • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
          61·
          7 months ago

          I guess it comes down to what your definition of privacy is. I’m setting the bar low, I just don’t want to be used to train a large language model

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Privacy? You lose your privacy the moment you publish your blog anyway.

      Oh, right, I’m gonna just reinstall facebook on the phone because I’ve lost everything… Oh and we have lost all of privacy by commenting on the internet and stepping out of the house! All resistance is futile! We need to close this community before people waste more of their time!

      This is not at all how it works. How would you lose privacy if you only publish what you want to publish? It’s entirely your decision what to include in your blog post.