AI can do what it does because it’s copying and reproducing the work of authors and artists, without regard to consent, license, compensation, or attribution. In other words, its training data is based on theft on a massive scale.
AI companies are bombarding sites with unprecedented numbers of requests as they scrape the web for training data, which can generate so much bot traffic that web operators are forced to shut down.
AI-based search generate “answers” by reproducing content from scraped websites, but they don’t send readers to the source. This causes human traffic to plummet, robbing authors of customers.