2ality Blog: Temporarily Offline because of AI
The 2ality blog is temporarily offline due to financial difficulties. The author, Axel Rauschmayer, has seen a significant drop in income from book sales and an increase in traffic from AI crawlers without generating ad revenue. He plans to take time to decide how to address these issues, particularly regarding the use of his work by AI companies.
- ▪The author's income from book sales has dropped to zero.
- ▪Traffic to the blog increased significantly, primarily from AI crawlers.
- ▪The blog and books will be offline while the author decides on future steps.
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2ality blog: temporarily offline Dear visitor! Two things happened recently: The income from my book sales went from being enough for me to live off (2024) to zero (2026). The traffic to my blog and my books (which were free to read online) increased beyond what I can currently afford. Virtually all of it comes from AI crawlers, so there is no ad income. Therefore, I’m taking my blog and my books offline so that I can decide what to do next – especially w.r.t. AI companies stealing my work. This may take a while (think months): I don’t have any energy to deal with this right now. I apologize for this (hopefully temporary) inconvenience to my human readers! You can still buy my books at Payhip. Axel Rauschmayer
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