We’re already seeing signs of incestuous data input causing damage. The more that AI takes over, the less capable it will be.

This is the peak, though. They require new data to get better but most of the available new data is adulterated with AI slop. Once they start eating themselves it’s over.

AI is just regurgitating old stack overflow. It’s not going to get better.

That’s okay, because there is a law about interfering with someone else’s contracted agreement.

A lot of companies were working with honey to have them make sure people didn’t get the best offer. So they knew exactly what was going on.

That’s kind of like a looter invoking the ‘finders keepers’ defense. Last click isn’t a law.

So their excuse would be everyone else is doing it? Good luck with that.

Disney backed off because they feared it wouldn’t be ruled applicable and didn’t want to create that precedent.

The class is people that use referral codes as an income source, so not the users that would have been subject to the terms of service.