AI Crawlers on Subeta!
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We've just pushed out an update to the site that prevents AI "bots" from crawling Subeta, and using the work we've all all done to train it's models.
This blocks any bots from Microsoft, OpenAI and others from crawling Subeta, and using anything it finds to train it's data. I've finished the process of opting out and outright blocking where we can't opt out.
If you experience any slowness or pages not loading (you'd get a "not allowed" error), please make a ticket.
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Thank you so much for taking into consideration the protection of the amazing work of not only the Subeta staff but also many talented artists who enjoy the site. The site art is one of my favorite things about Subeta and the work the staff has done to create it deserves respect and appreciation, not theft! Love Subeta all-the-more for advocating for artists!
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I don't know what anything you said means, but thank you. :)
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That is amazing thank you so much for your hard work I really appreciate the no bots idea I love subeta
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Gross @ AI bot crawlers >_> thanks Keith.
Thank you Keith for doing this <3 really appreciate
No more AI sh*t!
Thank you Keith! <3
Down with AI, a bunch of thieves, thanks for this update Keith!
That's terrifying but thank you for working hard to keep those nasty bots away from.the site!
:p we need a poorly AI made (not actually made by AI) challenger to beat up as a warning.
Yes, tell'em, we don't want scrappers here!
See? I'm repeating myself a bit these days, buy you guys are cool.
Thank you all for your hard work!
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I think I can sum it up without demeaning, I hope: AIs could, up until Keith blocked them from doing so, come in and essentially steal any and all hard work put into Subeta by all the artists and authors here without regard for credit or monetary dues.
Even simpler: AIs will steal anything they can, this is why they're hated in many respects. Keith stopped them at Subeta's front door.
I think I can sum it up without demeaning, I hope: AIs could, up until Keith blocked them from doing so, come in and essentially steal any and all hard work put into Subeta by all the artists and authors here without regard for credit or monetary dues.</p>
<p>Even simpler: AIs will steal anything they can, this is why they&;re hated in many respects. Keith stopped them at Subeta&;s front door.
This is exactly it! To give you an idea of how pervasive this is, these are our requests from the last week
Each of those page views is the AI "scraping" the data from user profiles and pet profiles (which don't require being logged in), or any pages they can navigate without being logged in. All of that high quality data (you're all incredible writers and illustrators) could be used to "train" the next generation of AI agents so if you asked it to "draw me a dog in the style of Subeta", it could conceivably do that which feels like theft, in my opinion!
So now none of those bots are allowed to scrape data from Subeta, and we've explicitly asked the companies (although it's impossible to verify what is in a training set that is private) to delete any and all data collected from Subeta.
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Holy crud look at all that data coming from Amszon alone... WTF!
'Eeeey! I like when that happens. 🤣
I had something of this same discussion with the head of the graphic design department at my college but that was more of a "Wild West" (rulebook on it being written as things were happening) take on things. It wasn't an outright ban.
And yes, it does feel incredibly like theft. That's part of why I also happen to have a great deal of ire for Adobe. Have you read anything into Adobe's whole thing with Creative Suites sweeping into the cloud for machine learning/AI learning and it was in violation of a bunch of NDAs and put the artists who did the art stored on the cloud also at risk of NDA violations?