My guess is that he didn’t think this through before deciding on the limitations. In his mind he’s thwarting AI scraping, but he’s forgetting about the side effects on users and advertisers.
Even if he goes the legal route to stop scraping, he’s not likely to succeed. One of the long-tweets responding to Musk noted that when companies tried to sue scrappers, courts sided with the scrappers it the information was publicly accessible.
I still don’t understand his strategy or plan. It makes zero sense to me.
I’m still not convinced he’s got one. I feel like he keeps trying the “throw it at the wall and see what sticks” form of management.
Which might work for startups. Not with platforms with hundreds of millions of users.
My guess is that he didn’t think this through before deciding on the limitations. In his mind he’s thwarting AI scraping, but he’s forgetting about the side effects on users and advertisers.
Even if he goes the legal route to stop scraping, he’s not likely to succeed. One of the long-tweets responding to Musk noted that when companies tried to sue scrappers, courts sided with the scrappers it the information was publicly accessible.