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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by franga2000 on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:02PM (#42551791)
If I make a physical robot and it runs someone over, I'm still liable, even though it was a delivery robot, not a running over people robot.

If a bot sends so many requests that a site completely collapses, the owner is liable, even though it was a scraping bot and not a denial of service bot.

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by stackghost on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:40PM (#42552206)
The law doesn't work by analogy.
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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by maximinus_thrax on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @09:14PM (#42563460)
Except when it does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy_(law)
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