Yes, credit doesn't matter for copyright, but I'm more talking about why people are mad about some uses of scraping and not others. Legality aside, there is so

Yes, credit doesn't matter for copyright, but I'm more talking about why people are mad about some uses of scraping and not others. Legality aside, there is something very strange about a device that both 1) relies on your content to exist and could not work without it and 2) is attempting to replace it with its own proprietary chat interface. Googlebot mostly doesn't act like it's going to replace the internet, but Gemini and ChatGPT etc all are. They're announcing "hi we are going to scrape all your data, put it into a pot, sell that pot back to you, and by the way, we are pushing this as a replacement for search, so from now on your only audience will be scrapers; all the human eyeballs will be on our website, which as we said before, relies on your work to exist."