Unless you drop this nonsense, I will stop using CC Licences

[cadadr]

Description

This is not something users of CC need, want, nor care for. Nobody but a bunch of plunderers care for this.

Reproduction

1. Buy into a destructive tech hype bubble.
2. Invent some non-solution to a non-problem.
3. ???
4. Profit.

Expectation

For you to get your act together, back out of this nonsense, and issue a public apology.

Screenshots

Environment

• Device: Gateway PC
• OS: OS/2
• Browser: Mosaic
• Version: 0.5
• Other info: 640x480

Additional context

Creative Commons is a very important licencing project and it apparently is helmed by people who are unaware of who are the main users and proponents of your work. I would be glad if you saved these people, a group that includes me also, the hassle of having to think of how to move on from CC.

You should understand that your "work" here is lending legitimacy to a scam and a marketing bubble whose main "value" proposition it is to facilitate plagiarism, help people pretend they have skills they don't have, deskill creative/knowledge labour, industrialise production of misinformation, and perhaps most gravely, trivialise creation of CSAM and other non-consensual sexual abuse imagery and turn it into a widely available SaaS product.

You don't need to be a part of this. You don't need to do this. You don't need to stain the name of CC with this immoral nonsense. It will go away out of the public's mind like did crypto, NFTs, this and that.

So-called "AI" bots are no different than any other nuisance crawler (well, except for their tendency to literally DoS random websites, occupying up to 99% of their bandwidths reportedly, which is an unprecedented level of disregard and hostility), they don't need special treatment, we don't need a way to make "exceptions" for them (which will likely be extorted by "AI" "companies" from news websites alike anyways, so long for consent), and we don't need this grift to be integrated into the literal infrastructure of the web, much like we don't need it for other similar grifts of the past.

Resolution

• I would be interested in resolving this bug.

[cadadr]

I see that you're doing damage control in the issues, and moving objections to a less visible space. Why would you put yourself in this situation? Nobody asked for this, you created a problem for yourself to fail at solving, and now are further humiliating yourself.

You're taking the Mozilla path and look at where that took them.

[TimidRobot]

Thank you for opening a dedicated discussion for this concern:

• Spiriting away issues into discussions feels like sneaky damage control #39