News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Twitter now requires an account to view tweets. Parent comment

Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by sebzim4500 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @04:58AM (#36548176)
They could but signing in, even in selenium, means agreeing to twitter's TOS. See the LinkedIn scraping case.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by smcl on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:45AM (#36549520)
The same way these AI code completion tools respected GPL-licensed code?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by sebzim4500 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @09:16AM (#36549759)
You don't generally need to accept licenses in order to scrape something, only if you want to distribute it.

The legal ambiguity comes from the question of whether LLM outputs are a derivative work of the training data. I expect that they aren't, but anything can happen.

[ Parent | on HN ]