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Y Combinator Co-Founder Paul Graham Says Paywalled Content Is Invisible to AI That Cannot Crawl It

He argued that material AI systems cannot crawl is effectively invisible to them and does not exist for practical purposes.

A small metal crawler pauses outside a sealed glass panel / TokenPost.ai
A small metal crawler pauses outside a sealed glass panel / TokenPost.ai

Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham said paywalled material is effectively absent from AI systems that cannot crawl it.

Graham tied a page’s practical visibility to whether an AI system can crawl its contents. Without that ability, he argued, the content is invisible to the system and does not exist for practical purposes.

Simon Yoon

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Simon Yoon reports on blockchain technology for TokenPost. Send corrections or tips to info@tokenpost.com.

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