Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

  • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’ve said once and I’ll say it again. Either the information on your site is free to all or to none. You can’t have some people/entities pay and some not!

    • PlexSheep@infosec.pubEnglish
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      6 months ago

      You can. We didn’t need to like it but they can. Besides, isn’t that how many magazines work? Pay for articles and such

      • vinyl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Not really, the people who write the articles are actually employed by those magazine companies, and everyone who wants to get one, needs to pay for one.