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Expect more sealed off content. Thanks to ai scrapers more companies will want to close their apis or charge a fee. Heck even openai, the main leech want to prevent others from “training” their bots against their ai that has been trained on other people’s work, bandwidth and ip. Mods closing subreddits are just a symptom.


Removing the APIs, or gatekeeping them, will do absolutely nothing to prevent the publicly exposed data from being collected.


Agreed, writing a scraper is simply worth the cost to get the training data.


Yeah I remember back in the day people stealing credit card data used to claim there is nothing to be done against them. Then warez kids on irc claiming no one can or should stop piracy. Things will eventually balance out, dont worry too much.


Web scraping is protected by law[1], analogous to physically taking a picture in public.

If they don't want people scraping their site, they can require an account and EULA.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/


Piracy still hasn't been stopped, fwiw


Neither has credit card theft, from beginner to expert.




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