An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic

[rcjordan]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3vmx/an-ai-scraping-tool-is-overwhelming-websites-with-traffic

[littleman]

>It's a simple logic: why should these companies sit idly by as a new generation of technology stripmine them for data in order to build tools that could compete with them later? Why should these companies provide that data for free?

This reminds me of the arguments web publishers use to make about Google.