No one is upset that the AI companies are scraping the web, they’re upset how poorly implemented the scrapers, but the scraping itself is fine. Lots of people and businesses scrape the web.
Then... don't? If it sucks so much why do you need to read the tweets?
Great take: "This private website is owned by a man I don't like, so I refuse to pay for it - or even give it the possibility to monetize my traffic with ads!"
Still quite mainstream take: "... so I'll use an adblocker on it"
Immature take: "This private website that I hate and boycott is also an important part of our culture, but the posts on it are too important and valuable to ignore, so I'll use a proxy to scrape it"
Does xcancel scrape twitter? Isn't it more like a proxy for specific user requests to view tweets?
It's almost as if moral values aren't assigned universally.
Correct, and nothing wrong with that.
"Kidnapping innocents bad but imprisoning criminals good?? Inconceivable!"
No one is upset that the AI companies are scraping the web, they’re upset how poorly implemented the scrapers, but the scraping itself is fine. Lots of people and businesses scrape the web.
There are people commenting parallel to you saying they are upset about AI companies scraping the web.
Because of the request load though. The ethical thing is separate.
Yeah I dont think they know why they think that.
Yes, anything that potentially costs Elon Musk money is objectively a good thing. :)
Yeah cuz X is fucking shitty, why would I want to give them any traffic?
Then... don't? If it sucks so much why do you need to read the tweets?
Great take: "This private website is owned by a man I don't like, so I refuse to pay for it - or even give it the possibility to monetize my traffic with ads!"
Still quite mainstream take: "... so I'll use an adblocker on it"
Immature take: "This private website that I hate and boycott is also an important part of our culture, but the posts on it are too important and valuable to ignore, so I'll use a proxy to scrape it"
You're confusing the site for the content on it.
Some of the content is good, the site sucks and is run by a guy who seig-heils crowds.
Even if the content sucked, your post has big "you want to improve `X`, yet you participate in `X`"[0] energy.
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You're giving them attention, thus validating their existence and their numbers.
“It’s ok to do bad things to people/things I don’t like”
Feels good when you get to dish it out doesn’t it?
if kidnapping is so bad why do we put the Unabomber in prison