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[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 73 points 7 hours ago
[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 107 points 8 hours ago (3 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 37 points 8 hours 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 21 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)
[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago

Unless they pay us the USDB!

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 35 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

From The Verge page: "SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content."

Bwahahahah! Oh, now that gave me a great laugh!

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Can you post the archive link so I don’t have to laugh at The Verge asking for me to give them money for their “journalism”?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 points 6 hours ago

Evading blocks isnt illegal

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

How can it be scraping up Google search results when Google is no longer providing search results?

[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 27 points 8 hours ago

And here I thought the pitch for AI was all about democratizing knowledge. Womp womp.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 24 points 8 hours ago