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Comment by incompatible

1 day ago

They seem to have so much bubble money at the moment that the cost of scraping is probably a rounding error in their pocket change.

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tdeck  17 hours ago

So the cost of caching should be a rounding error as well. If The Internet Archive can afford to cache vast swathes of the web, then surely the big AI companies can do so.

lysace  1 day ago

Exactly.

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