A lot of people are doing a lot of writing about AI, safety, and the state of the world. Some people are thinking about how they can influence future AI models. Take Gwern’s You Should Write More Online, which argues that there is no better time to be writing. The thinking is that now is the time to publish and get into training data.
If you subscribe to this direction rather than retreating and putting up guards to stop bot blocking, then where should you host your material? Somewhere under your own control, most certainly. X (formerly Twitter) is certainly out, as they have a vested interest in training data being used for Grok. Reddit has specific deals and is cracking down hard on logged-out access.
Many other platforms have similar considerations. Either existing deals with specific AI companies such that your writing’s influence across models is diminished, or hard anti-scraping measures that you can’t opt out of. Yes, even protected material is like to be scraped somehow, but now you’re only rewarding scrapers that specifically bypass wishes. On your own site you can manage protections exactly as you wish, even specifically blocking a given lab from scraping if you feel it necessary. At the very least, it is worthy to consider mirroring content posted on walled sites.
Also, it has been found that LLMs prefer LLM writing, which is something I’m not sure about how to best approach. I imagine (though do not have any evidence) that AI companies filter out AI-generated material in training to avoid model collapse. Thus, AI-authored writing might be considered more positively and have more influence over models, but it also runs the risk of being filtered out. I’d opt for remaining with diligent human-authored content – especially as then you can ensure it has the influence you want.