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Hacker News: APIs for content sites must be free
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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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Nothing can stop screen scraping. A nefarious LLM startup could hire an outside group to screen scrape the data and give it to them for training. Charging exorbitant amounts of money for the API hurts users far more than other companies with a profit motive to get the data.