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We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
In the past few months the MetaBrainz team has been fighting a battle against unscrupulous AI companies ignoring common courtesies (such as robots.txt) and scraping the Internet in order to build up their AI models . Rather than downloading our dataset in one complete download, they insist on loading all of…
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AI & Machine LearningSociety, Policy & Culture2026
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jan 13, 2026 | We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers by LorenDB | 465 | 266 |
