We're Walling Off the Open Internet to Stop AI
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AI companies are violating copyrights. Their bots don't respect robots.txt and are crashing servers. They're very well funded in doing all of this, and nobody is enforcing the law.
Once again, we can't have nice things because of bad actors. We aren't walling off the open internet, they're just ruining it.