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."
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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Telorand@reddthat.com · 224 pts · 245d
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 · 93 pts · 245d
It's not even their own content. Google took the search results from the sites they crawled and scraped.
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 38 pts · 245d
DSN9@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 245d
This is fucking hilarious.
msage@programming.dev · 4 pts · 245d
Unless they pay us the USDB!
SouthFresh@lemmy.world · 168 pts · 245d
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 98 pts · 245d
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 · 34 pts · 245d
Evading blocks isnt illegal
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 244d
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.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 245d
Yet
Archer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 245d
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 pts · 245d
How can it be scraping up Google search results when Google is no longer providing search results?
ripcord@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 245d
?
Agent641@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 245d
I think that they are dunking on google for only serving Ai summaries and high paying sponsored results.
veeesix@lemmy.ca · 42 pts · 245d
And here I thought the pitch for AI was all about democratizing knowledge. Womp womp.
tonytins@pawb.social · 39 pts · 245d
The irony.
goatinspace@feddit.org · 7 pts · 245d
MildlyConcerned@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 245d
reksas@sopuli.xyz · -2 pts · 245d