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RmDebArc_5@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’

www.theverge.com

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Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’

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RmDebArc_5@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago
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    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!

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      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.

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      This is fucking hilarious.

    • Hackworth@piefed.ca
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      <Three Spider-Men Point>

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      Unless they pay us the USDB!

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    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!

    • Kairos@lemmy.today
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      Evading blocks isnt illegal

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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        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.

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        Yet

    • Archer@lemmy.world
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      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”?

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

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

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

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    The irony.

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