exceot for the fact that it MASSIVELY inflates their stats for investors and advertisers.

Ah yes, the Reddit strategy.

I think that training models on scraped internet data should be legal if and only if those models' weights are required to be open-source. It'd be like slapping a copyleft license on the internet - you can do what you want with public data, but you have to give what you use it for back to the public.

The solution, to me, would seem to be to divide the revenue up on an individual basis instead. Does some sort of licensing issue prevent this? I'd think that the legitimate record labels would want to fix this loophole ASAP so that they can get more money.

uBlock Origin, not uBlock. uBlock is a bullshit extension riding uBO's popularity to bait people into downloading it.

They should have to make the weights public if they train on data scraped from the public internet. It's be something like copyleft by default for AI training.

How do you track down the sheer number of them so efficiently? You could obviously dig through each one's profile, but that wouldn't work for hundreds or thousands.