I heard back on this the other day. The #SJM aka #SJMN aka #mercurynews turned off their feeds due to #aiscraping , as they offered full articles in the feed.
Ugh. Still a -4 on productivity.
🚨 Publishers Strike Back: EU Demands “Pay Up” & UK Says “Let Us Opt Out” of AI Search! 🤖💸
The “wild west” of AI scraping just hit a massive roadblock. In a double-whammy update from Europe, lawmakers are finally drawing a line in the sand. If you own a website, create content, or work in SEO, the game is changing fast.
Here is the breakdown of the two massive stories shaking up the tech world this week.
#AI #AIScraping #publishers #AIContent ##AIcontrol #UK #EU #technews #SEO
Today in "The end of the open internet“: the Internet Archive @internetarchive is offline
https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/15/publishers-block-internet-archive-ai-scraping-fears-xcxwbn/
Publishers Block Internet Archive Over AI Scraping Fears
#AI #WaybackMachine #InternetArchive #Google #Reddit #OpenAI #BigTech #TheNewYorkTimes #NewsPublishers #AIScraping #OpenWeb #CommonCrawl #PerplexityAI #Media
No surprise here about #aiscraping. The question
Is if it's efficient and produces value that redeems the cost.
Yes, i laughed at the #typo in the title. Spellcheck alone should have caught it. 🤣
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bots-are-now-a-signifigant-source-of-web-traffic/
There is an ugly truth in this. I block ai scraping on my sites, but I am not blind to the fact that ai scraping can still happen.
It's not an industry that pays more than lip service to social responsibility.
They don't even need the data. That is how misguided it is.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/02/iab-ai-accountability-publishers-act
Zero surprised that Google is scanning Gmail emails for AI training. 😕
Although the bland the "A.I." generated voice is detestable in the extreme the overall concept is mildly amusing if unoriginal, plus, there's a special treat for #DoctorWho fans in trying to fathom where the contents of the Laser Tracking Room were illicitly scraped from...
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