Dell Cameron: WIRED caught an AI company scraping its articles w/o permission. Turns out, Amazon was hosting the machine doing the scraping, even though that violates Amazon's terms of service. Oh! And the AI company is funded by Jeff Bezos. wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/

WIRED caught an AI company scraping its articles w/o permission. Turns out, Amazon was hosting the machine doing the scraping, even though that violates Amazon's terms of service. Oh! And the AI company is funded by Jeff Bezos. wired.com/story/aws-perplexity-bot-scraping-investigation/

ICYMI: www.wired.com/story/perple...

Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machinewww.wired.com A WIRED investigation shows that the AI-powered search startup Forbes has accused of stealing its content is surreptitiously scraping—and making things up out of thin air.

norobots.txt

Let me get this straight first they said it was very complicated for your pretty little heads, and then they said it’s OK to crawl the website because “if the user gives you the website or part of it in a query that’s just like as if a human did it so we can ignore robots.txt” do I have this right?

seems like it

Guess what's about to change

bsky.app/profile/dell...

Microsoft declares Right to Plagiarize

Ever put content on the web? Microsoft says that it's okay for them to steal it because it's 'freeware.'www.windowscentral.com Microsoft's CEO of AI said that content on the open web can be copied and used to create new content.

The Washington Post has a new exec who will tell the team to aggressively cover this story...

🤣

this seems like a big deal?

The immediate response should be for Wired to host articles that only the scraper will pick up that detail how and why Amazon workers should unionize in response to popular queries on Perplexity's service.

I’m honestly impressed that robots.txt was respected for so long, but it’s irreversibly dead now.

lawsuit time :D

Not shocking news. They not only coup who they want. They screw who they want.

Lol

AWS will probably change its terms of service to allow this.

Wow. 🤦🏻‍♀️

here is my shocked face😐

i wish amazon a very happy getting sued

Wow. The robot visited their site two maybe even three times a day!

Kind of like going to the grocery store two to three times a day and taking one of each of the free samples. And then turning around and selling those to other people.

It's okay because it's for the greater good. Or, in this case, the greater mediocre.

"WIRED found the company had access to a server using an unpublished IP address—44.221.181.252" Has anyone told Barbra Streisand about this *unpublished* IP address?

Why wasn’t it scraping the Washington Post? 🤔

Well... Since these people are basically the government, surely they'll be cleared of any and all wrongdoing.

what the actual fuck