Navigating the Tensions of Data Scraping in AI

Welcome to the weird world of web scraping in the AI age, where founders have to protect their data from hungry AI companies but also need to collect information from all kinds of (not so) public APIs.

Today, I dive into a particularly confusing situation I am in with Podscan when it comes to scraping and keeping the web free and open.

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