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AI scrapers request commented scripts

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255 points ColinWright | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 15:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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bakql ◴[31 Oct 25 18:41 UTC] No.45775259[source]▶
>These were scrapers, and they were most likely trying to non-consensually collect content for training LLMs.

"Non-consensually", as if you had to ask for permission to perform a GET request to an open HTTP server.

Yes, I know about weev. That was a travesty.

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sdenton4 ◴[31 Oct 25 19:57 UTC] No.45776055[source]▶
The problem is that serving content costs money. Llm scraping is essentially ddos'ing content meant for human consumption. Ddos'ing sucks.
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2OEH8eoCRo0 ◴[31 Oct 25 20:00 UTC] No.45776078[source]▶
Scraping is legal. DDoSing isn't.

We should start suing these bad actors. Why do techies forget that the legal system exists?

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1. herbst ◴[01 Nov 25 10:42 UTC] No.45780643[source]▶
Facebook and Bing sometimes are 80% of my daily hits and don't respect my IP bans and other bot filterings at all. You think I can just sue them and have any change to win before being broke?