The lawsuit alleges OpenAI crawled the web to amass huge amounts of data without people's permission.

The lawsuit alleges OpenAI crawled the web to amass huge amounts of data without people’s permission.

    • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think it’s a little closer to being mad that the Google street car drove by and snapped a picture of the front of your house, tbh.

    • zekiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s more like leaving an important letter in the open for everyone to read. It’s certainly your fault for leaving it that open.

    • Dran@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      But does leaving your front door open allow one to legally take a picture of the inside from across the street? I’d say scraping is more akin to that than it is theft. Nothing is removed in scraping, just copied