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Comment by maplethorpe

2 months ago

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Scraping for search engines is different. They need to scrape the data to build the index, otherwise the search wouldn’t work.

  • Being indexed in a search engine benefits the website owner, as it drives traffic towards the website.

    Being used as AI training data provides negative value for a website owner, as it takes traffic away.

    It's the difference between a movie review, and a ripped torrent.

So you mean to say it is different because it needs to be different to exist?

Following that same logic, may I inform you that your income going forward is different: it has to be directed to my bank account, because the account needs the money! :-)