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AI harvesting your garden doesn't destroy the garden though. It's like calling piracy theft; in the digital realm those types of analogies quickly break down.

I also personally still feel like posting reviews on Amazon is a public good. I like helping people. That my efforts also help Amazon as a company is incidental.

Certainly if there were a convenient way to cross post my reviews to a more open platform that would be great. The more people I can help the better. It does annoy me to see companies trying to block scraping as if they own my posts and they aren't part of a commons.



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