I suspect this is more about all the individual searches than mass scraping. We’ve had google et al scraping the entire web for a long time and nobody gave a fuck. AI makes it easy to launch a ton of web searches without putting much thought into it.
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Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Think of it like tipping culture. Get mad at AI industry scrapers that make anubis necessary. Sam Altman is the reason. Take a lighter and…
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 days ago
Search engines doing it is good because now you are indexed and they won’t do it as often as AIs.
AIs will take your stuff, DDOS you in the meantime and do it periodically - by different people too, they don’t give back anything either
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Instructions unclear: tipped my servers, now all offline?