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How web scraping actually works - and why AI changes everything

AI's appetite for scraped content, without returning readers, is leaving site owners and content creators fighting for survival.

You need to be able to react to market forces fairly quickly, so tasking a bunch of employees to constantly refresh hundreds of web pages and note results in a spreadsheet just will not do. But as Helena Helmby shows in the journal BMC Immunology, beneficial parasitical worm species like trichuris trichiura or necator americanus can help treat autoimmune disorders like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. These companies pay a small stipend to end users who voluntarily give up a few cycles of processing power and a few bytes of bandwidth to scraper client programs, who feed the results back to central repositories.

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