One companys devious plan to stop AI web scrapers from stealing your content

AI is stealing your content. We know this is how AI companies have built their highly-valued businesses – by scraping the web and using your data to train their chatbots. In the past, websites could rely on simple protocols like robots.txt to define what could, and could not, be used by web crawlers. Those guidelines were respected by the companies doing the scraping to, say, build results for search engines. AI companies, however, are not abiding by this social contract and are ignoring those instructions.