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

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

  • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s not necessarily true. Even if a company makes the mistake of not securing data correctly, those that make use of this data can still be at fault.

    If a company leaves a server wide open, you still can’t legally steal information from it.

    • tallwookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      that’s kind of a grey area - digitally copying something that’s public domain isnt stealing.

    • Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      undefined> If a company leaves a server wide open, you still can’t legally steal information from it.

      I don’t see how this is any different than if Google search included text from a page that shouldn’t be public.