Comment by cdrnsf
9 days ago
This is a natural response to AI companies plundering the web to enrich themselves and provide no benefit to the sites being scraped.
9 days ago
This is a natural response to AI companies plundering the web to enrich themselves and provide no benefit to the sites being scraped.
Seems more like an easy excuse to shut down a means for people to bypass their paywalls. It would be trivial for AI companies to continue getting this data without using the Internet Archive.
I imagine that's a consideration, but there's plenty of pushback against AI companies scraping outside of this.