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Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand (www.wired.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

            
              putting paywalled content onto the internet, where you let bots look at it but try to prevent humans from being able to see it, is plain evil.
NYT lied to get us into Iraq, and countless other times, they are pure evil
NYT did not contribute to the building of the internet in any way. but they see it as their god given right to take the hard work of the nerds they hate and use to make millions of dollars for themselves, while giving nothing back
nobody here seems to understand the difference between a USER AGENT and a BOT. If i ask my web browser to fetch me a web page, that browser is my user agent. of course it does not respect the robots policy. same thing if i ask an LLM to fetch a page for me. that LLM is my user agent, not a bot in this case. NYT is mad because they let all bot-like user agents in, they want to be indexed after all. of course here again we see where NYT wants the benefit of internet resources like being in the search index, but they want to give nothing back and make the actual human people suffer by degrading their experience on the web

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

I'm sure you're one of the ones that will complain when all journalism is replaced by AI, while lacking the basic understanding of why that had to happen.