Ask HN: Why Are We Fighting AI Scrapers If the Internet Is Meant to Be Public?

Post by sejje » Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 9:41 PM UTC

999900000999 wrote: post #3

Let's say I noticed a lot of people in my neighborhood don't have fresh apples. I own an apple farm, so I don't mind leaving out a few apples boxed up and ready to go. For sake of argument, just assume that these apples are fine but by the time they could be transported for sale they wouldn't be fresh. For the first two years of doing this, most people would come and pick up a couple of apples and then go home. In th…