I’m playing with locally installed image generation using Stable Diffusion models. As I installed Stable Diffusion 2.1 Base in Mochi Diffusion I was listening to Tori Amos (through my DT 770 Pro 250 Ohm and MOTU M2, heavenly) and thought, “What if I fed some lyrics into this model?”
Let’s say I’m a writer and publishing on my personal blog, or the New York Times website, or anywhere on the Internet, and I don’t want my content to end up in AI systems such as OpenAI, Llama, Claude, etc. The official advice from these tech companies is, unsurprisingly, is for me to do something technical. Here I’m quoting ChatGPT:
If you want to prohibit automated crawlers from accessing your website’s content (and thereby reduce the chance it’s used in future training sets by OpenAI or other companies), you can:
- Add a robots.txt file at the root of your website with directives disallowing their crawlers….
- Consider adding meta tags to prohibit search engine indexing (this signals to many crawlers, not just GPTBot):…
As a writer, I have no idea how to edit robots.txt or meta tags, and even if I did I may not have access to them.
Shouldn’t I be able to simply mark my content on a case-by-case basis using plain language?
I’ll propose a mark: No-AI. Short. Simple. Memorable. Something a child publishing their first essay online could understand.
I use a hyphen between No and AI in order to make it one continuous string, and to avoid words or abbreviations spelled noai.