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Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 223 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Google and other megacorps with AI slopbots: AI bots should be free to slurp up as much data as they want. It doesn't break copyright!

Also those companies: Wait, AI isn't allowed to steal from us!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 92 points 2 months ago

Also those companies: Wait, AI isn’t allowed to steal from us!

It's not even their own content. Google took the search results from the sites they crawled and scraped.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] DSN9@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 months ago

This is fucking hilarious.

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Unless they pay us the USDB!