From John Gruber today: It’s fair for public data to be excluded on an opt-out basis, rather than included on an opt-in one [...] No, no it’s not. This is a critical thing about ownership and copyright in the world. We own what we make the moment we make it. Publishing text or images on the web does not make it fair game to train AI on. The “public” in “public web” means free to access; it does not mean it's free to use. Besides that, I’d also add what I’ve seen no one else mention so far: Peopl...