https://letsautomate.it/tags/digital-commons/ Recent content in Digital-Commons on Lets Automate It Hugo en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0600 https://letsautomate.it/article/beyond-the-prompt-infrastructure-costs-of-scraping/ Tue, 10 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0600 https://letsautomate.it/article/beyond-the-prompt-infrastructure-costs-of-scraping/ <p>Earlier this year, I co-wrote (with <a href="https://www.christiansonjs.com/">J. Scott Christianson</a>) a paper titled <a href="https://letsautomate.it/article/beyond-the-prompt-social-costs-of-generative-ai/">“Beyond the Prompt: The Social Costs of Generative Artificial Intelligence”</a>. In this paper, we explored how generative artificial intelligence affects the digital commons (e.g., the internet), particularly the organizations and communities responsible for making information publicly available.</p> <p>One of the topics we discussed was scraping and the costs imposed on organizations around the world.</p> <p>But not all systems are created equal, and neither are the costs of operating them at scale.</p>