Comment by Aurornis

> So instead of scraping IA once, the AI companies will use residential proxies and each scrape the site themselves, costing the news sites even more money.

News websites aren’t like those labyrinthian cgit hosted websites that get crushed under scrapers. If 1,000 different AI scrapers hit a news website every hour it wouldn’t even make a blip on the traffic logs.

Also, AI companies are already scraping these websites directly in their own architecture. It’s how they try to stay relevant and fresh.