- and let's not forget: Besides all the content theft #AI stands for, people also pay for traffic, which means that random website owners are paying through the fucking nose for traffic to their sites that's just AI crawlers.

I've seen logs for websites showing traffic to drop by 70-80-90% just by blocking those crawlers; these are non-trivial expenses.

Or, in other words, these companies aren't just stealing people's content - they're stealing their actual money.

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