• drspod@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    What’s best for the website owners is to have people actually visit and interact with their website. Blocking AI tools is consistent with that.

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      4 months ago

      For a lot of AI search I actually end up reading the pages, so I don’t know how much this stops that

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        4 months ago

        You’re the outlier, I promise. People are literally forfeiting their brains in favor of an LLM transplant hese days.

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          4 months ago

          On the flip side, most websites are so ad-ridden these days a reader mode or other summary tool is almost required for normal browsing. Not saying that AI is the right move, but I can understand not wanting to visit the actual page any more.

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            4 months ago

            On the flip side, most websites are so ad-ridden these days a reader mode or other summary tool is almost required for normal browsing.

            Firefox with uBlock Origin works perfectly fine and pages load faster without the ads!