alt Hacker NewsIf the LLMs are the "new Google" one solution would be for them to pay you when scraping your content, so you both have an incentive, you're more willing to be scraped and they'll try to not abuse you because it will cost them at every visit. If your content is valuable and requested on prompts they will scrape you more and so on. I can't see other solutions honestly. For now they decided to go full evil and abuse everyone
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The only way that would work is if they were legally required to. And even then, it probably wouldn’t work unless failure to comply was a criminal offense. You know what? Even then it still might not work.
or turn your blog into a frontend/backend combo. keep the frontend as an SPA so that the page has nothing on it. have your backend send data in encrypted format and the AI scrapers would need to do a tonne of work in order to figure out what your data is. If everyone uses a different key and different encryption algorithm suddenly all their server time is busted decrypting stuff
So they won't pay you and just scrape pages that have it public, and you will never get traffic from search again until you let them scrape
No disrespect to op, but I'm baffled as to how people keep coming up with ideas like this as if they are viable.
Google is never ever ever ever going to "pay to scrape." I'm genuinely baffled as to how people think it would possibly come to this.