this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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Is sampling and analyzing publicly available data and not storing it considered stealing?
I'm not defending anyone here, but that's just weird. It's also weird to take a meme seriously, but w/e.
You can't use someone's work for whatever you want just because it's publicly accessible.
I'm actually still not sure how I feel about this.
I can use books to learn a new language. AI can use texts to learn their kind of language in a sense.
I'm not sure where the limit is or should be though.
Hasn't web scraping been done for like forever, though? How is this any different? You get publicly accessible information and you derive data from it. You're literally not stealing anything or storing it as-is.