> If it's publicly funded, why shouldn't AI crawlers have access to that data?
replyBecase it costs money to serve them the content.
Crawlers accessing public data could be required to provide searchable access to the public data they collect. Value-for-value.
replyIf I build a business based off of consumption of publicly funded data, and that’s okay, why isn’t it okay for AI?
replyIs the answer regulate AI? Yes.
> If I build a business based off of consumption of publicly funded data, and that’s okay, why isn’t it okay for AI?
replyBecause when you build it you aren't, presumably, polling their servers every fifteen minutes for the entire corpus. AI scrapers are currently incredibly impolite.