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Mastodon user decries AI crawling of scientific database

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Mastodon user Joeroe expressed relief after a year of combating AI crawling of the XRONOS scientific database. The user highlighted the significant waste of publicly funded resources spent on mitigating damage caused by companies that scrape data instead of using API clients for model training. This issue is reportedly widespread across the open data and open science ecosystems. AI

IMPACT Highlights the ongoing challenges and resource drain caused by un협조적인 AI data scraping practices.

RANK_REASON User complaint about AI crawling, not a formal announcement or industry-wide event.

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Mastodon user decries AI crawling of scientific database

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    After a year spent battling abusive # AI crawling of our scientific database # XRONOS , this is a joy to behold. Now we can get back to adding new data and feat

    After a year spent battling abusive # AI crawling of our scientific database # XRONOS , this is a joy to behold. Now we can get back to adding new data and features! Still. We have used hundreds of publicly-funded hours on mitigating the damage caused by companies that can't be b…

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