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This was a deeply disappointing response.

1. Asking the bot is not “asking at the source.” An actual source relevant to my question would be a person familiar with itch.io who is also involved in web scraping or building datasets for AI generators. All the bot knows is what’s been explained already by someone else, like in an FAQ.

2. I’m disgusted my question inspired you to prompt the chatbot, wasting the energy (estimated) of a hundred standard web searches, and I’m annoyed you posted its meaningless output into my topic.

3. Your answer missed the point of my asking. I’m aware people here can simultaneously answer the required yes/no question honestly and hide the status of AI-generated content. That’s why the “No AI” added to tags is reassuring. That’s why I want to specify with a tag that I’m not using that technology in my uploads! It’s easy to miss the filter in the site search.

I’ve had my images and my writing scraped without my permission for training datasets before. For a while, I stopped sharing my work online in frustration over the disregard for my copy and use rights, the breaking of trust between creators and our audience, and the abusive ways our data is used by AI developers.

Maybe— yes, it’s best to assume that because so many sneaky AI fans are on itch.io, and because a chatbot will quote pages here, then anything that’s easy to find and copy will be thrown into a dataset for these things. The “No AI” tag would be easy to send an outside bot through if there are no protections.