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Skiddies targeting an individual site are a drop in the ocean compared with the industrial scale LLM scraping, so blaming them for it is in bad taste.

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> Skiddies targeting an individual site are a drop in the ocean compared with the industrial scale LLM scraping

They're not. Both are bad, but at least there's some utility to LLMs.

The difference is that the government won't charge a major LLM vendor with a crime, but they may kick in John Smith's front door and ruin their life.

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