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Podcast: Tech Brew Ride Home
Episode: Fri. 03/21 – A Look At LibGen
Description: That whole thing with Meta allegedly scraping all the world’s books using LibGen is back in the news. Cloudflare is fighting AI scraping with AI slop. A super interesting executive shakeup at Apple. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.Sponsors:FreshBooks.comLinks:The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem (The Atlantic)Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content (The Register)Apple Shuffles AI Executive Ranks in Bid to Turn Around Siri (Bloomberg)Gmail rolling out AI-powered ‘Most relevant’ search upda...