Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
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A report alleges that Quora’s Poe chatbot delivers downloadable HTML copies of paywalled journalism when users provide article URLs, producing summaries and hosting full-page captures from sites like The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and The Atlantic. Server logs indicate a “Quora Bot” fetched content without checking robots.txt, prompting legal and ethical concerns over copyright and web-crawling practices.
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