Re:AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
by devsda on Thursday May 21, 2026 @12:48PM
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How do you distinguish Google/MS scraping for Gemini/Copilot vs Google Search/Bing? In the case of Google, the UA is the same and you are entirely at their mercy to honor the Google-Extended instructions in robots.txt
Google has further complicated it with new search announcement blurring lines between regular search and AI search. And AI likes to not honor any licenses or instructions when it is hungry for training material.
It is once again an example of Google using its dominant position to abuse and promote cross functional products.
Re:AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
by johneth on Friday May 22, 2026 @03:35AM
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I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't some sort of legal action against Google, the monopoly, to make the distinction in how their crawlers use scraped content.
Google has further complicated it with new search announcement blurring lines between regular search and AI search. And AI likes to not honor any licenses or instructions when it is hungry for training material.
It is once again an example of Google using its dominant position to abuse and promote cross functional products.