[breve]

AI companies really do socialize the costs and privatize the profits.

Sites like The Numbers have to take on the cost of surviving the AI onslaught and the AI companies return nothing back to them.

[Cthulhu_]

To a point; as the post mentions, they added instructions for LLMs to their website and increased their licensing inquiries tenfold (the article didn't state anything about actual licensing payments being made though).

I don't think there would be any issues per se if the scrapers just paid licensing fees to get the good / complete data. But the issue was that they started to try and find exploits to get to data earlier.

[jambalaya8]

worse; it isn't just no return, it is also cost.