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How is this different from Microsoft scraping to build Bing? Honest question. There is a line in the sand somewhere apparently.

• oreoftw 14d ago
  Huge difference between building AI and a search index.
  • sneak 14d ago
    Why? In both cases the SaaS downloaded the whole web and derives 100% of revenue from content they didn't make.
    • gnz11 14d ago
      Bing isn’t re-selling you back the content it took.
      • sneak 14d ago
        They absolutely are; you pay by viewing the ads.
    • oreoftw 14d ago
      Yes but the product is different. One is a shovel for you to dig, another one is an artificial intelligence that competes with or replaces the digger.
• haxiomic 14d ago
  Linking to work, where ownership and attribution is clear and the owner has the ability to commercialise is a very different thing to “laundering” content through the model, quoting the midjourney developers here > "We just need to launder it through a fine-tuned codex." [0] [0] https://cybernews.com/news/midjourney-ai-images-art-lawsuit-copyright/ https://cybernews.com/news/midjourney-ai-images-art-lawsuit-...
• sethops1 14d ago
  Bing sent traffic to the original source. AI answers don't. That's the line. It's not complicated.
• piltdownman 14d ago
  Under “conduct requirements” imposed by the CMA in June, UK websites are able to activate an opt-out to stop Google from scraping their content to power search features such as AI overviews - very similar conceptually to the news law passed in Australia. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56163550 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56163550