> If it's publicly funded, why shouldn't AI crawlers have access to that data?

Becase it costs money to serve them the content.

If I build a business based off of consumption of publicly funded data, and that’s okay, why isn’t it okay for AI?

Is the answer regulate AI? Yes.

	▲	JumpCrisscross an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> If I build a business based off of consumption of publicly funded data, and that’s okay, why isn’t it okay for AI? Because when you build it you aren't, presumably, polling their servers every fifteen minutes for the entire corpus. AI scrapers are currently incredibly impolite.