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Years ago I read Sven Birkets, The Gutenberg Elegies which is quoted on my reviewer profile page on our website. Back in the 90s Birkets was concerned about the impact of electronic media on reading and how books will be written and marketed, but I don’t think he ever imagined one AI reading another AI’s books to generate clicks and cash on Amazon. Is this crazy, or am I just getting old?

It's pretty wild, though "reading" might not be the right term here. On a side note, interesting book. I'm assuming it's probably dated in parts but I might have to keep an eye out next time I head to the library/bookstore.

It is dated on many technological issues, but I think it is philosophically still relevant

On book bannings . . . ditto what you said

Might be of help, at least for stopping automated bot scraping (if they're going to do it, make them do it manually!): https://neil-clarke.com/block-the-bots-that-feed-ai-models-by-scraping-your-website/

Thanks Owlroost. I’ve seen this before and will be implementing it on my site. Unfortunately, the scrapped article was something I had published elsewhere so I didn’t have much control over things.

A long overdue update to my blogroll. Lots of other interesting things to add, though.

I just saw the listing for my site and wanted to say that you've made my night- "one of those sites you can just get lost in" has been a goal for me, and it means a lot to hear it from someone else.

No worries, that was honestly the most accurate description I could think of :-)

guilty, but still sexy

Indieweb movement is promoting a good thing in a bad way.

Nice to see someone else handcrafting their feed (and fed up with a lot of the newer feed readers). And thanks for the link! I originally wrote the safety page as a response to the surge of minors putting real-world information online that I've been seeing, particularly the sort of information that carries high risks to share.

@nohappy can't argue with that.

@umbritzer They're alright. Just not as cool as the old web kids ;)

No worries @Owlroost. Yeah, I think it's generally good practice for adults to retain some anonymity too. Although, it seems like many new "online safety" laws coming into force are hell-bent on removing that anonymity.

Ugh, of course now I found your RSS primer in the one place I didn't look last night. Ah well, got myself set up with a little RSS to email aggregator on my shiny new hobby email. Thanks for the tips!