TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI - eviltoast
  • hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    It’s not that it’s a threat, it’s that there’s a difference between archiving for preservation and crawling other people’s content for the purpose of making money off it (in a way that does not benefit the content creator).

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      2 months ago

      crawling other people’s content for the purpose of making money off it (in a way that does not benefit the content creator).

      You’re describing capitalism there, bud