06-20-2026, 01:00 AM
I agree with both of you, and yet I think it's fighting against the tide. Like mp3's and the music industry, every industry has to change and adapt. Google and Microsoft sure aren't shy about plundering public web content for their own shopping and review and book and maps sites, never mind training their AI on it all and giving you snippets of sites and AI answers so you never even click through. And politicians have already passed laws giving them safe harbor to do so in many cases. Ultimately this is why Google is a $4 trillion company while many original source web publishers are scraping by. I think we need to shift to a fair model where sites can charge microtransactions whenever their content is used by another site, even if paraphrased or aggregated by an AI. Not just "let Google steal it" or "let Google steal it and pay them a percentage of a number Google determines".
Just so you know, I only used free RSS feeds for my "personal newspaper", which are snippets website owners have chosen to share with individuals for their own use. So I couldn't legally publish their snippets verbatim as my own content, I can just use it myself to filter just the type of news I'm interested in, or combine information from multiple sources to get a more complete perspective, etc. (With recent rulings, AI fair use training / transformation is somewhat of a grey area, but generally allowed if the content was acquired legally.)
MyManoa thanks for the allhawaiinews site, I was not aware of that one!
Just so you know, I only used free RSS feeds for my "personal newspaper", which are snippets website owners have chosen to share with individuals for their own use. So I couldn't legally publish their snippets verbatim as my own content, I can just use it myself to filter just the type of news I'm interested in, or combine information from multiple sources to get a more complete perspective, etc. (With recent rulings, AI fair use training / transformation is somewhat of a grey area, but generally allowed if the content was acquired legally.)
MyManoa thanks for the allhawaiinews site, I was not aware of that one!
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