2ality blog: temporarily offline due to AI stealing work

mmarian

Not mine. Added to the actual site title the AI part, just because it makes the subject clearer.

stavros

I don't understand, how did AI cause the sales to drop to nothing?

pogue

Maybe he should just get wordpress unlimited, like the guy who get's automatically flooded everytime someone uses archive[.]today

drooby

At what point will we create micro tolls that AI must pay?

mmarian

Unfortunate outcome, don't see any way out though. Think we have to accept that discovery via Google/ LLMs is dead. Best way is to share blogs in forums/socials, and hope people sign up (RSS/newsletter). But there's going to be much lower demand as well, and you'll have to have a really good justification as to why people can't get similar content from an LLM.

lenkite

It pretty clear that the days of open-publishing are over. Your work merely goes into feeding Anthropic & OpenAI's bottomline. Priced & closed digital publication with a notice of "This reading license is for pure human consumption only - kindly contact the publisher for AI usage", is going to become more and more popular.

pixel_popping

> The traffic to my blog and my books (which were free to read online) increased beyond what I can currently afford. Unrelated to the rest of what's being said but I don't see how that could cost more than $2-5 a month to host?

jazzypants

This is absolutely a tragedy. Dr. Rauschmayer's work is unparalleled in detail and accuracy, and the JavaScript community is worse without it freely available. I completely understand his reasoning. It just makes me sad.