Our tax dollars are hard at work. We subsidize AI’s infrastructure and electricity costs, and the companies subsidize AI-powered DMCA spambots.

“The targets included both static pages with no content, and dynamic search query URLs with keywords pre-filled by the complainants that returned no results. This caused a significant amount of work, as our team manually reviews such notices to screen for abuse,” Blythe says.

The number of requests has only increased by 20% or so… but that doesn’t account for the number of URLs per request, which, according to this article, sounds gross.

Somebody please tell me that companies are well within their rights to ignore bad actors who are this malicious. That DMCA requests are not basically “guilty until proven innocent”.