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How is Perplexity different from running a Jupyter Notebook or anything, really that lets you download a web page programmatically? I can spin up an AWS instan
by riskable 1y ago
How is Perplexity different from running a Jupyter Notebook or anything, really that lets you download a web page programmatically? I can spin up an AWS instance, login then run `python` and scrape the BBC's content as much as I want. Why aren't they suing Amazon (and every other company that lets you download stuff via their systems) for providing the same functionality?
A very old argument: If you don't want people scraping or downloading your content don't put it on the (public) Internet!
Imagine we had LLM-like functionality in the 1980s: Sony announces a new VCR that can read a recorded news show and print out a summary on a connected Imagewriter II. People start using it to summarize the publicly-broadcast BBC news programs.
Today's scenario would be like the BBC sues Sony for providing that functionality.
- ethbr1 1y agoBecause copyright is intrinsically linked to scale. 1000000x'ing fair use... might no longer be fair use. The balances between society and copyright need to change when scale changes drastically. To address the elephant in the room -- what happens when there are only leachers and no sources, because we've let them hijack first-party news revenue without creating a replacement?