AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale | Hacker News

Hacker News users debated whether AI companies are scraping online content at scale without properly crediting or paying creators.

The thread covered technical defenses like robots.txt, Cloudflare blocking, and paywalls, plus the limits of each approach.

Commenters also discussed copyright, fair use, and whether legal action or class settlements could force compensation.

A possible future model is content licensing, but there was no consensus on who should pay, how much, or how it would work.