> Just because a text on a website is "public", it doesn't mean you can copy it and plug it into your product. That’s true but you can for products like traini

> Just because a text on a website is "public", it doesn't mean you can copy it and plug it into your product. That’s true but you can for products like training models. The restrictions come about if the content is copyright and republished. So training a model doesn’t republish anything. If content providers don’t want everyone to access, then they should password protect or otherwise limit access. So web scraping is not “hijacking.”