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Expect more sealed off content. Thanks to ai scrapers more companies will want to close their apis or charge a fee. Heck even openai, the main leech want to pre
by gumballindie 3y ago
Expect more sealed off content. Thanks to ai scrapers more companies will want to close their apis or charge a fee. Heck even openai, the main leech want to prevent others from “training” their bots against their ai that has been trained on other people’s work, bandwidth and ip. Mods closing subreddits are just a symptom.
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- tedivm 3y agoRemoving the APIs, or gatekeeping them, will do absolutely nothing to prevent the publicly exposed data from being collected.
- Zamiel_Snawley 3y agoAgreed, writing a scraper is simply worth the cost to get the training data.
- gumballindie 3y agoYeah I remember back in the day people stealing credit card data used to claim there is nothing to be done against them. Then warez kids on irc claiming no one can or should stop piracy. Things will eventually balance out, dont worry too much.
- malermeister 3y agoPiracy still hasn't been stopped, fwiw
- CommitSyn 3y agoNeither has credit card theft, from beginner to expert.
- Zamiel_Snawley 3y agoWeb scraping is protected by law[1], analogous to physically taking a picture in public. If they don't want people scraping their site, they can require an account and EULA. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/