alt Hacker NewsScraping the internet isn't a copyright violation. Using it for LLM training is much more transformative than Google and Internet Archive, which are legal.
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alfiedotwtf • yesterday at 8:39 AM
To be honest, this is the first time someone has spelt it out in a nicely succinct paragraph.
And just like that, I totally agree with you
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Your right, scraping is legally protected. It's reproducing verbatim text that's a violation, which is why LLMs still clumsily refuse to produce song lyrics. They are capable of copyright violations and have to be 'aligned' not to get their providers sued.