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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by kergonath on Saturday July 01, 2023 @06:26AM (#36548605)
> Elon has a good point there. Much of the current AI hotness is predicated on stealing peoples content and exploiting the infrastructure that other people have built. I don’t think it’s acceptable.

But then so is Twitter. They don’t produce any content whatsoever. The data they are having a fit about is not theirs, it’s been volunteered by the users. It’s the line Reddit is pushing, and it’s bullshit. AI companies scraping the web is no more unethical than Google doing it.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by hashtag-til on Saturday July 01, 2023 @11:34AM (#36551201)
Well, one thing is people going there and putting their data on a platform. That’s their choice.

Taking/scrapping/stealing that data out of said platform for the benefit of your over-hyped “disruptive” startup - and implying that others should give you all for free - is the issue.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by kergonath on Saturday July 01, 2023 @12:49PM (#36552036)
That’s not the point. Twitter has a non-exclusive license to distribute the content; it’s not the owner of the data regardless of the high horse Musk feels like riding today.
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