Even if it's painful, losers need to adapt, they can't indefinitely whine about how great the "good old times" were.
There's something odd about the sentiment expressed in this sentence. I don't think the anti-AI-scraper sentiment is whining about the good old days, it's more about terrible behavior, violating the Web social contact, and also dumping the implicit bargain of letting spiders in if ultimately traffic gets directed back. Meta and TikTok and other AI bots could observe robots.txt prohibitions, and consult sitemap.xml about when to rescrape. But they don't seem to. Instead of figuring out how to tread lightly, the AI scraper programmers put effort into circumventing any easy road blocks, entering arms races with website managers. It's just bad behavior, and surrendering isn't going to help anyone.
yawpitch•2mo ago
When Sam Altman says “grab your ankles” I’m not sure the right response is “how low?”
bediger4000•2mo ago
There's something odd about the sentiment expressed in this sentence. I don't think the anti-AI-scraper sentiment is whining about the good old days, it's more about terrible behavior, violating the Web social contact, and also dumping the implicit bargain of letting spiders in if ultimately traffic gets directed back. Meta and TikTok and other AI bots could observe robots.txt prohibitions, and consult sitemap.xml about when to rescrape. But they don't seem to. Instead of figuring out how to tread lightly, the AI scraper programmers put effort into circumventing any easy road blocks, entering arms races with website managers. It's just bad behavior, and surrendering isn't going to help anyone.