Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social

Turns out Perplexity, the AI company that has been ripping off journalism, started by posing as academics and using those fake credentials to scrape Twitter www.404media.co/perplexitys-...

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As A Dog-man ☭ @scooterdavis.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 23:08 UTC

Jesus

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the 1st rule of Wife Club @cpi.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

the funniest outcome is Elon calls them a pedophile and then they all spontaneously combust

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Not kidding; wish I was @nkwiw.com [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 17:35 UTC

great article, and wow perplexity ceo is a lot more naive than i anticipated, “it’s fair use” is gonna end up in a court proceeding somewhere. (small typo, fyi: “the people who people who”)

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 22:08 UTC

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GreyDuck @greyduck.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 17:54 UTC

This is my exhausted lack of surprise.

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 16:39 UTC

Dopey question: if I can block search engines from indexing my site, why can't I block AI scrapers?

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