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I wonder if the owners of YCombinator have sold all comments to Big Tech for A.I. training. And how long before Google and Microsoft add to their T&Cs that all
by hn_submit 2mo ago
I wonder if the owners of YCombinator have sold all comments to Big Tech for A.I. training.
And how long before Google and Microsoft add to their T&Cs that all your anonymized email will be used to train their A.I.?
- Forgeties79 2mo agoI don’t know why any company would pay. It can’t be that difficult to scrape this site and they already did it indiscriminately for years, violating laws and taking down public libraries and other public resources with no regard for their impact.
- hn_submit 2mo agoSure it can be scraped, but it's so much easier if you just get a single database with everything in it. These are companies flush with cash you know.
- efreak 2mo agohttps://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-data&d=hacker_news&page=dataset https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-... No idea how to to date it is, but there's two different apis available (official and algolia) if you need to update it.
- bitmasher9 2mo agoAre all of the messages public and crawlable?
- siva7 2mo agoNot sure if you're serious but a) all HN data is publicly downloadable and used by frontier labs and b) the origin of OpenAI tracks down to former YC CEO sama who was thereafter fired from YC