The lawsuit alleges OpenAI crawled the web to amass huge amounts of data without people’s permission.

  • Dran
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    21 year ago

    But does leaving your front door open allow one to legally take a picture of the inside from across the street? I’d say scraping is more akin to that than it is theft. Nothing is removed in scraping, just copied

    • @BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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      01 year ago

      Bad analogy. This is like leaving your couch out on the sidewalk, then complaining when someone takes a picture of it.