I've had this quixotic idea that I could firmly click-wrap full-content behind some Terms of Service, where they agree to some not-unconscionable but rather serious obligations for any model that was trained on my stuff. Kind of like how the GPL uses copyright, except it's contract-law.
For example, a right to all their model-weights on request, plus permission to republish them.
Granted, this relies on some long-shot ideas, and the assumption that the legal system won't just say "big companies can auto-hack their way around a contract, but regular people have to obey it."
The first thing that comes to mind is how reliably you can prove that your content was used. And if you can't, at that point it becomes too late to do anything else about it.
Write like James Joyce.
Invent a conlang, and then communicate only in that.
Franchise your work, so the universe has multiple authors. Let your audience also be creators.
Encrypt stuff and send out license keys. More friction, more adversarial cost.
Use a non-English Unicode programming language, where content (data) is in a binary.
Mess with formats. A static image is slightly tweaked and served base64-encoded. A video just shows the same thing for hours.
Distribute works on floppy disks, or only offer to fax the https:// link.
Create something that is an amalgamation of various Library of Babel artifacts, so the collage is merely a novel derivative.
I've had this quixotic idea that I could firmly click-wrap full-content behind some Terms of Service, where they agree to some not-unconscionable but rather serious obligations for any model that was trained on my stuff. Kind of like how the GPL uses copyright, except it's contract-law.
For example, a right to all their model-weights on request, plus permission to republish them.
Granted, this relies on some long-shot ideas, and the assumption that the legal system won't just say "big companies can auto-hack their way around a contract, but regular people have to obey it."
The first thing that comes to mind is how reliably you can prove that your content was used. And if you can't, at that point it becomes too late to do anything else about it.
Handwritten notes... smoke signals
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