some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agoThe Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Workwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1340arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up1327arrow-down1external-linkThe Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Workwww.nytimes.comsome_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.
minus-squareGarlicToastlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·11 months agoTesting an algorithm for a paper with releasing the weights/data is not the same as selling the output of the algorithm.
minus-squarepiecat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoIt doesn’t matter: scraping data has and always been legal.
minus-squareGarlicToastlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoDepends where you live, my academic advisor set limits on scrapping due to past experience.
Testing an algorithm for a paper with releasing the weights/data is not the same as selling the output of the algorithm.
It doesn’t matter: scraping data has and always been legal.
Depends where you live, my academic advisor set limits on scrapping due to past experience.