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		Attach6156 on Dec 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI companies cause most of traffic on forums I have a hypothetical question: lets say I want to slightly scramble the content of my site (no so much so as to be obvious, but enough that most knowledge within is lost) when I detect that a request is coming from one of these bots, could I face legal repercussions?

rplnt on Dec 30, 2024 [–]

I can see two cases where it could be legally questionable:

- the result breaks some law (e.g. support of selected few genocidal regimes)

- you pretend users (people, companies) wrote something they didn't

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