It sure would especially for content that is publicly available on the internet where the main source of monetisation is through advertising and the main source of traffic source is search engines. Because monetisation required eye balls which would most likely move to using LLMs and less traffic source as search engines are already incorporating those LLMs so it is a double whammy !

Just moving it behind a paywall doesn’t solve anything because a single paying user can end up scraping all the content as well if there are no other limiting measures in place.

I guess people will adapt to it in one way or the other. Here’s for instance an new way to monetize content from cloudflare Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access

(@FlyingNoodle and I think then it would be cloudflare’s job to go up against openai)

So let’s assume open ai uses a single account to scrape all the hosted sites.

You then want to charge their credit card 100’000 x some amount ? Come on…

My point is that whatever license you can dream up, the big ones will simply ignore it because it’s too profitable for them to do so, and sueing them is borderline impossible as you are going up against Goliath.

It’s a bit like copyright or having a patent. Yeah, you can have it on something but unless you have the means to actually enforce it, it’s meaningless.