I’m not clear on the specifics but I’ve FWD’d this to someone I know in this exact scenario currently. Unsure if it’s the same Russian group, or if this is “breaking news” or not (aka if friends have already seen this decrypt solution before this article posted today), but this could make a huge difference to someone out there, even if not them. Thanks for posting.

Too bad

This attitude right here is my point. Thanks for unintentionally making my point for me ;)

legal =/= right

I’m so tired of people thinking the boundaries of the law are the boundaries of whats socially acceptable; it isn’t. The boundary of laws is where we get so fed up with you that we arrest your ass. the grey are in the middle where you are a shit human but not illegal, is not a place to brag about being.

Exactly, so this is purely performative on their part. Businesses shouldn’t virtue signal, its a little pathetic.

I still don’t see how adding a tiny little line of code to robots.txt equals OpenAI can no longer scrape data. Seems like they can still manually go in and harvest info manually right? and that’s not exactly a large list of companies.

Doesn’t really matter much now that they got their training done though does it

Disagree. LLMs are capable of producing contextually relevant text content while a player is doing other things, no need to generate it in realtime.