“We can’t police that whole thing,” Common Crawl said. “It’s not our job. We’re just a bunch of dusty bookshelves.”

Meanwhile, CC has accepted hundreds of thousands in donations from AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. And it expressed open antagonism toward the media:

We need to wake up to the reality that there won’t be jobs for a significant number of the population in the not too distant future. We will need to ensure those people are taken care of - and to do that a universal wage will be needed.