L4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoA lawsuit claims OpenAI stole 'massive amounts of personal data,' including medical records and information about children, to train ChatGPTwww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1128arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1124arrow-down1external-linkA lawsuit claims OpenAI stole 'massive amounts of personal data,' including medical records and information about children, to train ChatGPTwww.businessinsider.comL4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square37fedilinkfile-text
The lawsuit alleges OpenAI crawled the web to amass huge amounts of data without people’s permission.
minus-squarealmar_quigley@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·1 year agoThat’s like saying you didn’t lock your front door so whoever robs you is innocent.
minus-squareconditional_soup@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoI 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.
minus-squareDran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoBut 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
minus-squareBradleyUffner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoBad analogy. This is like leaving your couch out on the sidewalk, then complaining when someone takes a picture of it.
minus-squarezekiz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s more like leaving an important letter in the open for everyone to read. It’s certainly your fault for leaving it that open.
minus-squareMercuryUprising@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYeah, but what were all these people whose data was scraped wearing?
That’s like saying you didn’t lock your front door so whoever robs you is innocent.
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.
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
Bad analogy. This is like leaving your couch out on the sidewalk, then complaining when someone takes a picture of it.
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.
Yeah, but what were all these people whose data was scraped wearing?