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0 pointsgruez9mo ago0 comments

>If the AI archives/caches all the results it accesses and enough people use it, doesn't it become a scraper?

That's basically how many crowdsourced crawling/archive projects work. For instance, sci-hub and RECAP[1]. Do you think they should be shut down as well? In both cases there's even a stronger justification to shutting them down, because the original content is paywalled and you could plausibly argue there's lost revenue on the line.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Law_Project#RECAP

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fluidcruft9mo ago

I didn't suggest Perplexity should be shut down, though. And yes, in your analogy sites are completely justified to take whatever actions they can to block people who are building those caches.

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fluidcruft9mo ago

I didn't suggest Perplexity should be shut down, though. And yes, in your analogy sites are completely justified to take whatever actions they can to block people who are building those caches.

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