this page is no longer in use
the admin of neocities, kyle whatshisname, recently posted "Moratorium on freaking out about AI", a long writeup about how AI scraping-- sorry, machine learning-- is good, actually, and its nothing worth being upset about. while i do agree that a lot of the anti-AI sentiment is blown out of proportion, i remain firmly against using peoples' work for AI training without consent. i consider myself pretty well educated on it, so its not like this is some reactionary kneejerk feeling from me. i do not like it, and i do not like the condescending tone that kyles post was written in. i also dont like the fact that neocities was being held up as a bastion of "[rebuilding] the web we lost to automation and monotony, and [making] it fun again," then the owner goes and says "its actually good for people to steal your work and feed it into the instant content generation machine" ... how is any of that consistent with the values you supposedly wanted your site to represent? and to sit there as a siterunner and call for a moratorium on "freaking out about" a very valid worry of your userbase... it sits wrong with me.
therefore, i have moved the teres wiki over to another hosting site and i will continue to use that going forward. thanks for your time, and thanks for checking out my work. hope to see you there.