If a business hired a hundred people to go to a soup kitchen to get free soup and then went out and sold the soup surely that seems wrong.
PS - these comments are going to be used to train the next GPT aren't they?
PS - these comments are going to be used to train the next GPT aren't they?
When a person goes to Amazon and looks at what is splashed on the page, there are any number of chances that they will click "Buy!" on any one of them, and winning that lottery is Amazon's business; when a crawler does, it does more "looking" with no chance of purchase, and the data is then used to reduce the value of Amazon's lottery game.
I'm not arguing whether or not crawling is or should be legal, simply saying the "it's not theft because it's copying" argument is inadequate to the task.
Amazon is inherently anti-consumer, and uses every single thing it can to advertise to and/or profit off of you. Their 1984-inspired “security” and home automation systems, their app/website, their policies are all meant to take your money. Which is why web scrapers like CamelCamelCamel are good, because with all of this anti-consumer garbage Amazon shoves at you, you have the power to turn the tables and pick up what you need at the price you want.
The only time I’ve heard scrapers/indexers being a problem is Bing was terrorizing someone’s website, so they just banned every Google/Bing/Yahoo IP. A problem that $1.3T companies don’t have.
You can claim that “its not theft because it’s copying” is inadequate, but I would say the same about your own argument. Because there is no good argument against scraping data. It’s the only way to have a free Internet.
the rest of what you wrote is a combination of marxism--why can't society cooperate to meet my needs!?--and laissez-faire capitalism--bastards think they can use technology against me, I'll use it against them--neither of which either is a good way to run an economy.
don't worry, we don't "gotcha" here, we got you, brother!
It can change the availability of future data. I, for one, am altering my posting habits knowing that my data can be scraped into LLMs.
But I digress. This is more about selling an app with locations to soup kitchens. The kitchens may not have explicitly given permission to be used in the app, but their business location is public knowledge and not expected to be hidden.