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/
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.
