AI scraping as a reason creators restrict public access |

Dead Internet Theory: Creators who object to their work being collected for AI training or inference increasingly have tools to block crawlers, but stronger machine-access controls can also reduce the openness that once made public publishing easy to discover and reuse.

https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/dit-ai-scraping-as-a-reason-creators-restrict-public-access/

By Switchboard Tech Services · Originally published 2026-07-12

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