AI Companies Are Parasites
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- AI companies scrape the internet and siphon data without compensation, calling it fair use.
- They train models on stolen data, then sell metered access, repeating until the host (content sources) is harmed.
- The old traffic-for-indexing bargain is broken; scrapers overload infrastructure and collapse communities.
- Licensing deals exist but rely on declining human-generated communities, like Reddit.
- AI companies set up unwanted data centers, causing pollution, higher utility rates, and minimal local jobs.
- The output (prose, images, code) is often mediocre, harming platforms like Stack Overflow.