“The machines are taking both the content and the readers at an industrial scale, too.”

This is a story about how AI destroyed a long-running site of film data. It’s not just that search no longer refers traffic or that the site itself, The Numbers, is getting scraped. It’s also that there’s no way to defend 30-year-old webpages against malicious actors attempting to get the data early so they could win their Polymarket bets. [Link: What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all | https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all | Stephen Follows]

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