AI companies are the new robber barons.

They are hungry for content and they don't care if they bring small websites to a halt. @john_fisherman@mastodon.social has a blog post on how #AI bots slowed down a small independent newspaper. https://fredrocha.net/2024/09/26/ai-crawler-bots-on-the-hunt/

There's a lot to unpack here. We're defenseless against this scrapping, and these companies are not giving back to society.