We have a problem that high quality news is now behind paywalls while fake news and misinformation is free.
The new version of this problem is 88% of top US news sites block AI crawlers like ChatGPT but Breitbart does not.
Cue moral panic in a few months
https://www.wired.com/story/most-news-sites-block-ai-bots-right-wing-media-welcomes-them/
Dare Obasanjo /
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2024-01-24 13:38:07
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