• @BlueMonday1984
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    5 months ago

    Yeah. There probably was a fair bit of stealth-crawling up to this point, but the perps knew they needed to keep it on the down-low.

    The AI bubble, on the other hand, lacks the ability to keep it subtle, making it plainly obvious people’s shit was getting stolen and showcasing AI bros/techbros’ utter disregard for anyone but themselves (e.g. by ignoring robots.txt).

    Personally, I expect this will lead to much stronger scraping protections being developed to combat shit like this - Cloudflare’s already offering to block AI scrapers for its users and Kudurru’s offering a similar service, I can easily see a new market opening up here.

    (Off-the-cuff prediction: anti-AI scraping measures will likely start feeding false info to AI scrapers they detect - beyond simply throwing a wrench into those models, it’d also make it less likely AI scrapers will realise “hey, our shit’s getting blocked”)

    • @V0ldek
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      24 months ago

      Which is terrible since scraping is an extremely important tool for normal people. Like, if YouTube gets good at blocking scraping there will be literally no way to watch their videos anymore.