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Artists Built A Site To Escape AI. Scrapers Are Coming For It Anyway
www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2026/08/23/artists-built-a-site-to-escape-ai-scrapers-are-coming-for-it-anyway/
“Scraping is necessary to develop good models. It’s like building a highway – some houses must be demolished, but in the end everyone benefits,” the poster wrote in a thread titled “[AMA] I scraped all of Cara.”
Except they razed the entire countryside, including the hidden alcoves, to build this “highway” of theirs.
Oh fuck that argument to hell and back.
Plagiarism machines are not a highway.
Also, highways are and always will be extremely destructive. They kill (predomantly disadvantaged) neighborhoods, they pollute, divide and lead to “deserts”.