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

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[–] almar_quigley@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That’s like saying you didn’t lock your front door so whoever robs you is innocent.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I think it's a little closer to being mad that the Google street car drove by and snapped a picture of the front of your house, tbh.

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but what were all these people whose data was scraped wearing?

[–] zekiz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's more like leaving an important letter in the open for everyone to read. It's certainly your fault for leaving it that open.