Reddit is blocking AI search engines that don’t cough up for access

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is blocking AI search engines that don’t cough up for access

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said last month it would block unauthorized data scraping from its site, most of us assumed it was to tackle chatbot training. It turns out the site/service/fandom battleground also appears to be blocking search engines other than Brave and

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, the latter of which reportedly inked a deal earlier this year with

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worth $60 million annually.

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spokesperson told Engadget the empty search results are because these engines won’t agree to the company’s requirements for AI training. The company says it’s in discussions with several of them.

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and DuckDuckGo both appear to be affected.

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’s Xbox Game Pass price hike, especially given its recent lackluster game offerings. In an attempt to make up for it, it is adding a Call of Duty game. Unfortunately, it’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, one of the lowest-rated games in the series. Sorry, folks.

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It was sent to those dealing with last week’s outage.

Last week’s CrowdStrike outage plunged many companies into a messy world of blue ****** screens. The cybersecurity company tried to apologize with an Uber Eats gift card. Unfortunately, when people tried to use it, the offer had been rescinded by the issuing party. CrowdStrike said Uber had flagged it as a ****** because of high use rates.

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