This is an unfair hatchet-job by The Atlantic on Common Crawl, an *open* crawl of the web cited in 10k academic papers, available to anyone--including the AI companies dying legacy media love to demonize.
The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/common-crawl-ai-training-data/684567/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGQv84IP0_-K67yuVC013Fx4
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