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Reddit data is public and can be easily web scraped. Reddit doesn't own it. Spez is just throwing random memes in to distract people.
I am sorry but you don't know what you are talking about. These things are regulated by legal documents, you don't just wake up on morning and say "trust me bro, their data is public"
If you go and read their TnC's it explicitly statea that scraping is forbidden without prioir written consent. They only allow access to their data via APIs, which of course they charge for
The fact that it can be easily scraped it's neither here nor there, if they catch you they can sue you
Nah Terms of Service is not enforcable through browse wrap agreement in the US and most of EU. You can't implicitly agree with a legal document just by looking at something.
Check out LinkedIn v. Hiq case which went to 9th circuit and set the precedent for this. LinkedIn lost.
It is if they send you a cease and desist letter
99% of LLMs have pirated content and will continue to regurgitate pirated content until there is enough money at stake for a big lawsuit.
Getty is already suing the Dall-E creators, and someone is suing MS for Copilot; so it's already started
Again, big money users will get sued, everyone else will scrape with impunity.
Sure but I'm not sure why you are bringing this up. What's the wider point you are trying to make?
I'm still perplexed that some people are siding with evil ass Getty in that case. At least the copilot case has some merit but I don't see how Microsoft could lose as that would set precedent for whole AI in the US and no way US is letting that disadvantage to happen. It's meme-level lawsuits.
Just speculation, but I think it's because people think Getty can hire top class laywers and therefore has a better chance of winning compared to, say, the group of artists who were also taking Dall-E to court
Unless I'm mistaken and something is different, this hasn't been a problem for tools like newpipe, YouTube vanced, and fritter.