• SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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    6 hours ago

    The idea is that eventually they would stop scraping you cause the data is bad or huge. But it’s a long term thing, it doesn’t help in the moment.

    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 hour ago

      The promise of money — even diminishing returns — is too great. There’s a new scraper spending big on resources every day while websites are under assault.

      In the paraphrased words of the finance industry: AI can stay stupid longer than most websites can stay solvent.