AI companies often act as though everything on the internet is theirs to take for free. Blocking them is a constant game of whack-a-mole. Shut down one crawler and ten more appear, rotating through random IPs and scraping different parts of your community to evade detection. At that point, content theft becomes almost impossible to stop through technical measures alone.
That’s why I support Reddit’s decision to push back legally. I hope they win. DMCA protections mean very little when AI systems can ingest and profit from content hosted on your servers, becoming experts on topics they learned from creators they neither credited nor compensated.
I have not read the blog post complete, but what is discourse planning to help there users to protect content from AI ?