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.
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.