ChatGPT scraping the forums

[Reisal]

I've noticed this looking at the "Who's online" page minutes ago since this post, is this something that should be blocked, given how anti-AI the Doom community in general is?

[Blake00]

Google's AI is definitely scaping here, and I'm lucky it is, as I thought this place was dead. I saw the news articles last year, tried to visit and the whole place 'seemed' gone. Repeated attempts since lead to same result. Then today I was asking google some questions about my Star Trek GZDoom and Quest for Glory IV 3D Hexen mods to see how much it had scraped about them (it got plenty wrong lol) and it started quote stuff I'd posted on this forum. I'm like "the forums are gone, are you using some backup?" and it proceeds to tell me that no, it's just chrome browsers being blocked and that Firefox is fine. Sure enough it worked and here I am back in the forums I thought were gone. Granted I'm not as connected with the Doom modding community as I used to be when I was making my mods here but I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought this place was dead because of the change of management news and the chrome issue, so I hope that gets fixed at some point.