E
“The machines are taking both the content and the readers at an industrial scale, too.”
This is a story about how AI destroyed a long-running site of film data. It’s not just that search no longer refers traffic or that the site itself, The Numbers, is getting scraped. It’s also that there’s no way to defend 30-year-old webpages against malicious actors attempting to get the data early so they could win their Polymarket bets.
What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
[Stephen Follows]
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Loading comments
Getting the conversation ready...
Most Popular
Most Popular
- This tattoo is permanent, pain-free, and might soon come in the mail
- The ban on robot vacuums won’t make them safer, only worse
- You could be taking way better photos on your phone
- With Switch 2, iPhone, and laptop tricks, the Sharge Disk Pro 2 is finally a worthy EDC
- The US government just banned Roombas
