noWizardme
Gondolin
Sun, 2:47pm
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I'm more concerned about this forum collapsing under the weight of scraper bots.
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There is, of course, a debate that goes on about just how lazy people are to use AI, or whether like NaNoWriMo's contraversial stance of 2024, it shouldn't be rejected 'categorically'
For folks interested in that, This article from LitHub "NaNoWriMo defends writing with AI and pisses off the whole internet" gets beyond the tone of that headline and the author - creditably - tries to understand NaNoWriMo's position (before disagreeing with it in a thoughtful way).
I'm more interested in noting that our own forum has been rendered briefly unusable several times of late because of scraper bots. I find I don't like that, and so my attitude to AI starts to be affected by the inconveninece that the extractive needs of AI are causing in my own experience.
To paraphrase Gandalf:
Ever since the bots came I have been concerned about our charming, absurd, nerdy forum. It would be a grievous blow to the world, if the Dark Power overcame TORN; if all your kind, jolly, Tolkien-obsessed Bolgers, Hornblowers, Boffins, Bracegirdles, and the rest, not to mention the ridiculous NoWizardMe's, became unable to chat about Tolkien.
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"I am not made for querulous pests." Frodo 'Spooner' Baggins.
(This post was edited by noWizardme on Sun, 2:49pm)
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