The lawsuit alleges OpenAI crawled the web to amass huge amounts of data without people’s permission.

  • SamB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I doubt it’s only about some Reddit posts. The scrapping was done on the whole web, capturing everything it could. So besides stealing data and presenting it as its own, it seems to have collected some even more problematic data which wasn’t properly protected.

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      1 year ago

      But that really isn’t OpenAI’s fault. Whoever was in charge of securing the patients data really fucked up.

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        Leaving your front door open isn’t prudent but doesn’t grant permission to others to enter and take/copy your belongings or data.

        The security teams may have royally screwed up, but OpenAI has a legal obligation to respect copyright and laws regarding data ownership.

        Likewise, they could have scraped pages that included terms of use, copyright, disclaimers, etc., and failed to honor them.

        All parties can be in the wrong for different reasons.

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          I think it’s a little closer to being mad that the Google street car drove by and snapped a picture of the front of your house, tbh.

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          But does leaving your front door open allow one to legally take a picture of the inside from across the street? I’d say scraping is more akin to that than it is theft. Nothing is removed in scraping, just copied

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            Bad analogy. This is like leaving your couch out on the sidewalk, then complaining when someone takes a picture of it.

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          It’s more like leaving an important letter in the open for everyone to read. It’s certainly your fault for leaving it that open.

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        It’s certainly their fault that they used it, though.

        If they cared, they could have ensured they weren’t using sensitive or otherwise highly problematic information, but they chose not to. That’s on them.

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      if it was unsecured it’s basically public. whomever put that data on a publicly accessible server is at fault

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        That’s not necessarily true. Even if a company makes the mistake of not securing data correctly, those that make use of this data can still be at fault.

        If a company leaves a server wide open, you still can’t legally steal information from it.

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          undefined> If a company leaves a server wide open, you still can’t legally steal information from it.

          I don’t see how this is any different than if Google search included text from a page that shouldn’t be public.