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The AI company Perplexity is complaining their bots can't bypass Cloudflare's firewall (www.searchenginejournal.com)
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[โ€“] ubergeek@lemmy.today 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The fact is these laws are already on the books, we may as well utilize them to shut down this objectively harmful activity AI scrapers are doing.

Silly plebe! Those laws are there to target the working class, not to be used against corporations. See: Copyright.