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Aside from conventional rate limiting and bot protection technologies, how would you propose protecting a site from being scraped for a specific purpose through technology?

I would argue that there isn't an effective technology to prevent scraping for AI training, only legal measures such as a EULA or TOS that forbids that use case, or offensive technology like Nightshade that implement data poisoning to negatively impact the training stage; those tools wouldn't prevent scraping though.

I feel that the only deterrent that will actually work is to legally compel the deletion of models trained on unlicensed data.

Unfortunately, this mission reminds me of "This video is for educational purposes only." There is no real way to enforce use restrictions.

ha, yes, that's what I had assumed this was at first