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Podcast: This Week in Startups
Episode: The Strip Mining Era of LLMsâAnd Why Itâs About to End | E2141
Description: Todayâs show:AI has been feasting on the open webâbut is the free lunch over? In this explosive episode, @Jason and @alex call out OpenAI and others for âstrip miningâ the internetâs content without paying creators. As lawsuits pile up and new defenses like AI-robots.txt emerge, a reckoning looms. Will AI be forced to pay for its training data? Dive into the legal, ethical, and business implicationsâincluding Substackâs stance, Cloudflareâs firewall, and Perplexityâs lawsuitsâin what may be a turning point for the future of the web.Timestamps:...