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!
This is fucking hilarious.
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.
<Three Spider-Men Point>
Unless they pay us the USDB!
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!
Evading blocks isnt illegal
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.
Yet
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”?
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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Ai-generated reply:
Summaries like this are risky because they replace reading with compression. Important qualifiers disappear, uncertainty gets smoothed over, and the result sounds more confident than the original ever was. That alone already weakens the discussion. Piling automated responses on top of that doesn’t fix the problem—it just adds more distance from the source. The conversation starts orbiting generated text instead of the article itself, until no one involved can clearly say what was actually argued or why. At that point the exchange still looks productive, but it’s mostly just well-formed text responding to other well-formed text.
And here I thought the pitch for AI was all about democratizing knowledge. Womp womp.
The irony.
