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>I don’t understand why people are ok with Google scraping their site (when it is called indexing), fine with users scraping their site (when it is called RSS r
by OtherShrezzing 1y ago
>I don’t understand why people are ok with Google scraping their site (when it is called indexing), fine with users scraping their site (when it is called RSS reading), but suddenly not ok with AI startups scraping their site.
Google and the publisher share the value derived from that scraping event (somewhat equitably) when a user clicks a link in Google's index. OpenAI, Anthropic, and co extract all of the value, and incur costs to the publisher, from their scraping events.