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If you can paste the URL in a browser and copy paste the next, why is it bad that a third-party agent can do the same? It's no different than a remotely-hosted
by Nextgrid 2y ago
If you can paste the URL in a browser and copy paste the next, why is it bad that a third-party agent can do the same? It's no different than a remotely-hosted browser you control via natural language, or asking a human assistant to do it and email you the result.
- tangentstar 2y agoThe first distinction I can think of is, “Who has agreed to the terms of service of the site being visited?”
- gtirloni 2y agoThe CEO of the scraping company. Are we good?
- Tepix 2y agoThese terms are legally void
- kalleboo 2y agoIf I visit a website and there is a tiny link to the terms of service on the bottom of it, there is no reasonable interpretation that I have ever agreed to them.
- cchance 2y agoBecause the stupid terms of service link being on a site doesn't mean anyone agreed to them, they dont actually hold up in a court of law. Now if you signup for an account and agree, then MAYBE then they can be enforced. So no if its on the internet and its publicly viewable, i don't see why a bot like chatgpt should somehow be blind to a site that a human can see lol, hell microsofts made their new AI system see your screen, do you also want the AI's to somehow black out the screen area that has the website open and ... know theirs a TOS somewhere on the page
- hnroo99 2y agoThat's fair. Given that you can't do this programatically with their api (it disallows scraping prompts), it feels less prone to abuse. And even if a bad actor tried to leverage their web api instead of their official api to get around prompt limitations they could easily just ban you.