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I don't understand, how did AI cause the sales to drop to nothing?

• MForster 6mo ago
  He didn't say that.
  • stavros 6mo ago
    Then the title of this post desperately needs changing.
  • mmarian 6mo ago
    > I’m taking my blog and my books offline so that I can decide what to do next – especially w.r.t. AI companies stealing my work Why would he take down his content if it's not due to AI?
    • jostylr 6mo ago
      He said the crawlers were costing him money. Maybe stealing could be viewed as avoiding the ads? Don't know what license he had on his publicly available content, but if his site was not being crawled heavily, then it sounds like he might not have taken it all down. I wonder about hosting it on Github / GH-pages or something. Maybe at some volume it becomes a problem or maybe they disallow ads which he wants to profit from? I used to follow him years ago and liked his content but I drifted away long before AI. I wonder given his deep expertise how much he could get into teaching how to spot and fix bad AI JS code.
• zero_shift 6mo ago
  Axel thinks that scrapers have aggregated his content, and now, potential readers doing searches or queries on AI assisted systems, see the scraped content rather than his website.