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Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge
(arstechnica.com)
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Why would they be concerned about litigation? As far as I know, scraping is completely legal in most/all countries (including the US, which I'm more familiar with and they're headquartered out of), as long as you're respecting copyright and correctly handling PII (which they claim to be making an effort on).