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Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 223 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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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    [–] 97 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Evading blocks isnt illegal

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    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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    • [–] 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

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    • [–] 41 points 9 months ago

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

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    [–] 38 points 9 months ago

    The irony.

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