The majority of traffic for many websites comes from AI or data companies. These companies use your data for free without your permission, process it, and then sell it to you or others. This is robbery and theft.
Technical measures cannot fundamentally solve the problem; they can only mitigate it, and consume significant resources, and waste time and energy.
Legal, commercial, and ethical means can truly resolve the problem, just as open source software licenses address theft and piracy.
I think the better solution is as follows:
Create a license that prohibits or makes AI companies pay to use your content.
1. Include your license link in your `robots.txt` file, or create another file called `license.txt` in the server’s root directory.
2. Include your data use policy in this file. You can prohibit data use or specify the conditions for use, such as payment, price, and duration.
3. If you require AI companies to pay for data use, publish your payment link on a page of your website.
4. If an AI company fails to pay or violates your `license.txt`, you can take legal action against them.
5. If you don’t want to, don’t have the time, or if litigation is ineffective, you can publicly denounce the company and damage its reputation. Don’t underestimate the power of moral condemnation and business reputational damage.
6. It’s easy to check if an AI company is using your content. If you confirm that, just take actions against them.
What do you think of this solution, or do you have a better one?
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