Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not that reddit isn’t hot garbage right now, and has been for a while actually, but there’s a lot of people here who have glazed over the reason why reddit instituted this policy.
AI companies are scraping the way back machine. This is something that should concern all of us.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Why?
Midnight1938@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Circumventing sites with ‘no ai scraping’ rules
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And what do I care about Reddit getting paid?
If the IA doesn’t complain about being used, then it’s fine for me. The ideal outcome would be, if the archive can make some arrangement where they scrape the data and provide it to everyone. That way, sites only get scraped once and not constantly hammered.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There are plenty of sites out there not owned by major conglomerates that have norobots and noscrape tags that AI companies can use Wayback as a way to circumvent their policies.
This isn’t about reddit, it’s about AI companies stealing everything on the internet and then selling it back to you while taking your job away.