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BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content::ChatGPT will be blocked by the BBC from scraping content in a move to protect copyrighted material.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah because they don't want people getting all their news directly through chat GPT, or it's successes, they want them to have to go to the BBC website.

Isn't is basically what every news publisher is currently doing, this doesn't seem to be very noteworthy. It's like putting out an article that says "people don't like being set on fire", well, yeah.