• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    That’s not touching the ethics of stealing everyone’s work for your AI then selling it back to them.

    Yeah, it’s the “selling it back to them” part that gets me. I don’t want to outlaw scraping, because then the Wayback Machine couldn’t function. The Wayback Machine is free, though. It’s a public service. (One which is very much needed, IMO.) If, instead, the Internet Archive required that you pay for a subscription in order to use it, I think most people would be very upset, and rightfully so.

    You want to scrape the Web to feed your LLM? Cool! Make it an open-weight model.