Great, another thing I have to block server side. Reminds me of the image leech protections that had to be in place because bandwidth was expensive. History doesn’t repeat but rhymes as they say.

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pavlov 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe AI-service-blocklist-as-a-service could be a YC company.

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paytonjjones 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Better business model would be some sort of micropayment setup - allow humans, but make scrapers pay a hundredth of a cent for access.

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owlninja 2 hours ago | parent [-]

	▲	paytonjjones an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yep. It will be interesting to see if things move that way or not. AI scraping might get annoying but a lot of sites (eg e-commerce) have obvious incentives to allow AIs to scrape them for free (or even pay AI companies to prioritize them, like they already do with Google).