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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 223 points 4 days 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 91 points 4 days 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.

[–] DSN9@lemmy.ml 31 points 4 days ago

This is fucking hilarious.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] msage@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

Unless they pay us the USDB!

[–] SouthFresh@lemmy.world 167 points 4 days ago
[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 96 points 4 days 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!

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Evading blocks isnt illegal

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

This is completely untrue. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act uses extremely broad wording. People have been sued for right clicking on a webpage and saying “View Source” before. Aaron Schwartz, co-founder of Reddit, was driven to suicide after a harassment campaign by the FBI and scientific paper publishers, as another example.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days 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”?

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 47 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I think that they are dunking on google for only serving Ai summaries and high paying sponsored results.

[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 42 points 4 days ago

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

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 38 points 4 days ago
[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 7 points 3 days ago