• Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
    3 months

    Google and other megacorps with AI slopbots: AI bots should be free to slurp up as much data as they want. It doesn’t break copyright!

    Also those companies: Wait, AI isn’t allowed to steal from us!

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 months

      Also those companies: Wait, AI isn’t allowed to steal from us!

      It’s not even their own content. Google took the search results from the sites they crawled and scraped.

  • foodandart@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3 months

    From The Verge page: “SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content.”

    Bwahahahah! Oh, now that gave me a great laugh!

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3 months

        This is completely untrue. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act uses extremely broad wording. People have been sued for right clicking on a webpage and saying “View Source” before. Aaron Schwartz, co-founder of Reddit, was driven to suicide after a harassment campaign by the FBI and scientific paper publishers, as another example.

    • Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      Can you post the archive link so I don’t have to laugh at The Verge asking for me to give them money for their “journalism”?

  • actionjbone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3 months

    How can it be scraping up Google search results when Google is no longer providing search results?

  • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 months

    And here I thought the pitch for AI was all about democratizing knowledge. Womp womp.