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If the LLMs are the "new Google" one solution would be for them to pay you when scraping your content, so you both have an incentive, you're more willing to be scraped and they'll try to not abuse you because it will cost them at every visit. If your content is valuable and requested on prompts they will scrape you more and so on. I can't see other solutions honestly. For now they decided to go full evil and abuse everyone

No disrespect to op, but I'm baffled as to how people keep coming up with ideas like this as if they are viable.

Google is never ever ever ever going to "pay to scrape." I'm genuinely baffled as to how people think it would possibly come to this.

Well, "let Google do whatever the fuck they want because they're rich" isn't exactly working out, is it.
presearch does. Anyone had experience with them?
The only way that would work is if they were legally required to. And even then, it probably wouldn’t work unless failure to comply was a criminal offense. You know what? Even then it still might not work.
or turn your blog into a frontend/backend combo. keep the frontend as an SPA so that the page has nothing on it. have your backend send data in encrypted format and the AI scrapers would need to do a tonne of work in order to figure out what your data is. If everyone uses a different key and different encryption algorithm suddenly all their server time is busted decrypting stuff
How does your normal users get access to the same contents?

Or are you having the user solve an encryption puzzle to view it?

- the frontend has a decryption module that ll show users what they want to see,

- the backend has an encryption module.

- The bots and crawlers will see the encrypted text

- Can someone who peeks deeply inside the client side code decrypt it? YES

- Will 99% of the scrapers bother doing this? NO

- The key can be anything, it could be a per session key agreed upon between the client and the server, a csrf token, or even a fixed key

Ehm what would stop ai scrapers from using a browser like a normal user would? Google bot already does, it can execute js and can read spa client side generated content, so it proves can be done at scale, and I'm pretty sure some ai scrapers already do
If you decrypt the content on the client side using an expensive decryption algorithm the scraper needs to spend the computing resource to decrypt.
Every visitor too. Mobile users are going to love this.
rate limit per ip that progressively keeps decreasing req/mins every few mins?
the AI will just run chrome instance
for example this is what my backend renders on the static html page

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only my frontend can figure out what it is

Well, sure, and the AI scrappers and Google are using your frontend to render your website.
That makes the mistake of thinking they'll care. Most likely they'll just keep downloading the encrypted garbage and never notice.
> That makes the mistake of thinking they'll care. Most likely they'll just keep downloading the encrypted garbage and never notice.

Not going to happen. They aren't going to add encrypted garbage to their dataset.

We could also just punish the people who are ruining society.
So they won't pay you and just scrape pages that have it public, and you will never get traffic from search again until you let them scrape
This would require new laws though, wouldn’t it?

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