Since this was not clear, that’s correct. The intention is not to encourage non-contribution to the open internet, including open source projects.
It is a problem in 2022 when someone seriously proposes opt-out as a solution to anything. Our world does not “do” opt-out. Our concept of “opting out” of the big-data world is some inconsequential cookie selection with a “yes” and a buried “no” to make the user feel good. We are far past the point of starting conversations. It’s not productive, or useful, when it’s predictably the case that one’s publicly accessible data will end up used for AI training by major players anyway, many of whom will have no obligation to follow even token opt-out and data protection measures.
Conversations can be good, but founding one on a predictably dead-end direction does not seem to make much sense.
This isn’t a suggestion to do nothing, it’s a suggestion to look elsewhere. At the margin, “opting out” does not affect anything except the gullible user’s imagination.
Since this was not clear, that’s correct. The intention is not to encourage non-contribution to the open internet, including open source projects.
It is a problem in 2022 when someone seriously proposes opt-out as a solution to anything. Our world does not “do” opt-out. Our concept of “opting out” of the big-data world is some inconsequential cookie selection with a “yes” and a buried “no” to make the user feel good. We are far past the point of starting conversations. It’s not productive, or useful, when it’s predictably the case that one’s publicly accessible data will end up used for AI training by major players anyway, many of whom will have no obligation to follow even token opt-out and data protection measures.
Conversations can be good, but founding one on a predictably dead-end direction does not seem to make much sense.
This isn’t a suggestion to do nothing, it’s a suggestion to look elsewhere. At the margin, “opting out” does not affect anything except the gullible user’s imagination.