> Your browser is automatically speaking HTTP for you so that you don't have to.
Yes, but it's not filling in the forms or clicking the buttons for me. HTTP is just infrastructure. Are LLMs infrastructure? Are we too maybe infrastructure? Where do we draw the line?
> You mean, request data and receive what the other server voluntarily transmits?
I mean to go over a large collection of publicly or privately (to you) available pages and parse and collect the data, with idea of using it in other purposes.
Regarding scraping, considering that this whole AI phase was built on illegal scraping, I don't think they can say anything now...
> I mean to go over a large collection of publicly or privately (to you) available pages and parse and collect the data, with idea of using it in other purposes.
I've always called that "learning" but I guess it's called something else when a robot does it :)