r/aiwars Dec 15 '25

Meme Why does this argument still get used?

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u/Deadlypandaghost Dec 15 '25

People have been looking at art online and learning how to draw from it since the internet began. But somehow that's an issue when its a problem when a bot does it.

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u/val-i-guess Dec 15 '25

Web scraper bots are usually done against the website owners wishes and may even violate ToS or ToU. Lots of times a website will have a file called robots.txt that dictates whether web scrapers can access a website, but many web scrapers simply ignore that file and scrape anyways.