Luu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1426arrow-down16
arrow-up1420arrow-down1external-linkTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comLuu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squareGrimy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down11·21 hours agoAny regular person can scrape and use public data for AI use, it’s not illegal for companies or individuals and it shouldn’t be.
minus-squareMojave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoExcept companies have sued people for web scraping. https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/linkedin-sues-after-scraping-of-user-data Even web scraping for research purposes, not for competitive purposes. https://www.engadget.com/2016-05-17-publicly-released-okcupid-profiles-taken-down-dmca-claim.html
minus-squareRmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·19 hours agoproceeds to download the entirety of one piece to train an AI
minus-squareMelvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 hours agoIt will be the way we have all come to hate AI. Patriot act 2.0
Any regular person can scrape and use public data for AI use, it’s not illegal for companies or individuals and it shouldn’t be.
Except companies have sued people for web scraping.
https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/linkedin-sues-after-scraping-of-user-data
Even web scraping for research purposes, not for competitive purposes.
https://www.engadget.com/2016-05-17-publicly-released-okcupid-profiles-taken-down-dmca-claim.html
proceeds to download the entirety of one piece to train an AI
It will be the way we have all come to hate AI. Patriot act 2.0