1) Public websites don’t require any more permission than taking photos of a public storefront. We abide by privacy laws and make sure we don’t overload website servers.
2) We aren’t complaining. We’re curious how others view this topic and space because it’s a contentious topic. We recognize that we might be able to address the larger issue of lack of compensation for websites being scraped by facilitating a win-win marketplace (only loser is proxy providers).
So you really don’t care that “the rise of AI has put the free web at risk”, you care that it is putting your company at risk when you are doing the same thing and making the same argument that the companies training the models are doing?
Are you paying any content providers now?
Why didn’t you just admit that up front or at least disclose you have a business interest in being able to scrape others content for free?
2) We aren’t complaining. We’re curious how others view this topic and space because it’s a contentious topic. We recognize that we might be able to address the larger issue of lack of compensation for websites being scraped by facilitating a win-win marketplace (only loser is proxy providers).