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2026-07-28 10:52 UTC
Or they insist that the mere act of making copies of published works in order to count their elements and the relationships between them is a sin, despite the fact that this standard would kill search engines, the Internet Archive, and the Oxford English Dictionary:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-28 10:52
I mean, by all means let's hate the AI companies and work to end their disgusting campaign to pauperize creative workers, but let's not fall into the trap of siding with the media bosses who insist that the salvation of creative labor will arrive when Sam Altman pays David Zaslav for the right to cram the entire Warner catalog into Openai's chatbots: https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/03/its-a-trap-2/#inheres-at-the-moment-of-fixation 10/