Hacker News Reader

If they didn't care about the artists, why would they care about academia?

Two completely different stories. One is public data scraping, another is private conversation scraping (where they're a first-party to the conversation). The key difference is that in the former case, no one made any promises, in the latter an explicit promise was made that data is not used for training (assuming opt-out).

Just because you post on the internet doesn't mean its public, each company has a privacy policy, of which nobody "opted in" for LLM use either when they signed up, they may have opted in for targeted ads, but not LLMs or a virtual recreation of your likeness, skills or persona. I don't remember reading that anywhere in any TOS or privacy policy.

So, it is the exact same story, plagiarism from the plagiarism machine.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com