AI models are being blocked from fresh data — except the trash

And some AI companies like Perplexity just shout “YOLO” and try to stealth-crawl it anyway. [404 Media; Wired]

it’s fucking wild that automated scraping without permission used to be something you did as a last resort under strict restrictions and secrecy, cause whoever had the data you needed wasn’t exposing a usable API. but not in the AI industry, there it’s the fucking foundation of the entire company

Random people taking something new and trying to make quick bucks off the hype? Never heard of this before. /s

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