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

  • priapus
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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.

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      1 year ago

      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.