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> Whatever happened to courtesy in scraping? Money happened. AI companies are financially incentivized to take as much data as possible, as quickly as possible
by jsheard 2y ago
> Whatever happened to courtesy in scraping?
Money happened. AI companies are financially incentivized to take as much data as possible, as quickly as possible, from anywhere they can get it, and for now they have so much cash to burn that they don't really need to be efficient about it.
- nicce 2y agoNeed to act fast before the copyright cases in the court gets handled.
- bwfan123 2y agonot only money, but also a culture of "all your data belong to us" because our ai going to save you and the world. the hubris reminds me of dot-com era. that bust left a huge wreckage. not sure how this one is going to land.
- __loam 2y agoIt's gonna be rough. If you can't make money charging people $200 a month for your service then something is deeply wrong.