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[-] owen@lemmy.ca 15 points 9 months ago

You can't use someone's work for whatever you want just because it's publicly accessible.

[-] JorMaFur@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

I'm actually still not sure how I feel about this.

I can use books to learn a new language. AI can use texts to learn their kind of language in a sense.

I'm not sure where the limit is or should be though.

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I don't think that's really the same thing. Most people learning another language aren't doing it specifically so they can turn around and sell translations to millions of customers.

And if they were, they'd probably need to be accredited and licensed, using standardized sources that they pay for, directly or indirectly.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

so they can turn around and sell translations to millions of customers

That sounds like a translator to me. And also, they're kind of doing it for free. What they're selling is access to their latest models, their API and their plugins store. They're not exactly selling the information that has been transformed.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Hasn't web scraping been done for like forever, though? How is this any different? You get publicly accessible information and you derive data from it. You're literally not stealing anything or storing it as-is.

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