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I disagree, it's still too early and a bit presumptuous to make such conclusive statements

Sure but I'm not sure why you are bringing this up. What's the wider point you are trying to make?

Getty is already suing the Dall-E creators, and someone is suing MS for Copilot; so it's already started

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

Technically not (well, they can make it harder), but they can sue them for doing it

Oh I'm not saying they are doing the right thing or that it was the correct decision. Just speculating whether LLMs is what kicked off the whole thing

I’ve yet to run into any of these individuals.

...you wrote, only half an hour earlier 😉

Exactly because we made the mistake once, in more naive times, we don't want to make it again...

No one seems to have any problem with some of the extreme anti-human ideologies that a lot of social media ceos have.

That's patently untrue

I mean I like the lemmy-verse, but the main devs behind Lemmy are totally tankies. It's the reason why a lot of people are hesitant in joining

This is the main developer (one of the only two developers) - if the avatar wasn't enough, have a look at the "essays" repo in his account... https://github.com/dessalines

"Merely" - the TOS basically grant Reddit the ability to do what the hell they want with it, LOL

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And furthermore

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IF the owners of the data agree, or, if they disagree, until they take you to court. Getty Images are taking the creators of Dall-E to court, an some tech company is taking MS to court for Copilot

Yeah, one of the other answers to the AMA was "we are not profitable yet, unlike the 3rd part app devs..." - that is something that wouldn't sit well with any investor I know