This is how they "monetise" a website. Quote from the article in the link - " the LLMs are building models such as ChatGPT to provide the answers to any and all prospective questions, and that will mean people no longer need to go elsewhere for solutions. And they’re building those models with illegally scraped content from the very websites they are poised to replace."
And have you noticed also the way that AI-generated posts are currently flooding the internet - using bits scraped from those websites, tacked together if they seem to have a connection with each other, and illustrated with a photo (also pinched from somewhere without asking) The picture often has no connection with the AI text at all, but will pull in the clicks and comments on which the site depends for its advertising income (the advertising sites "buy" advertising space by paying a participating site per click or per however many people read it and comment. The ad agency puts its choice of ads on the site. (Remember this if you are tempted to post "Aww, how cute!" at a photo of sweet kittens on a random page with no observable content of its own. Its purpose is to get clicks and comments for gain.)
Have you noticed also the supposedly factual information in the (rather too wordy and pseudo-acedemic) text that accompanies a photo of, say, a group of children playing happily in the street while their mothers peg up spotless washing and chat, all of them in the non-new-but-whole clothes that people all used to wear for mundane jobs like washing and cleaning, or playing outside. The title will be "poverty in 1950" or some such, and the blurbs waffle on in a sociological way but say nothing at all that can be verified - the pic is probably not from that date, it is not in fact showing poverty, and the author doesn't know their subject. The spirit of the whole scene is that we are supposed to pity everyone in the scene, and the comments echo this - they say "poor kids!" or "someone should have done something" and so on. We are being brainwashed into depression and anarchy by AI bots programmed by people with dubious motives.
