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BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content (deadline.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content::ChatGPT will be blocked by the BBC from scraping content in a move to protect copyrighted material.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It won’t really matter, because there will continue to be other sources.

Other sources that will likely also block the scrapers.

It doesn't matter if only BBC does it. It matters if everyone does it.

What incentive do the news sites have to want to be scraped? With Google, they at least get search traffic. OpenAI offers them absolutely nothing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Other sources that are public domain or "cheap enough" for OpenAI to simply buy them. Hence my point that OpenAI is already worth enough that they could make a takeover offer for Reuters.