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Blog Post About Web Scraping & the Law (December 2022)
As we'll discuss, the CFAA is just one of multiple laws that web scrapers might be accused of violating. This blog post gives a cheerfully sarcastic overview of the legal landscape for scraping data online, as of December 2022.
Since then, AI companies' use of scraping to train their LLMs has begotten a tidal wave of lawsuits. In June 2023, the same blogger covered one early court decision in a case against GitHub, and discussed a pressing question: how can AI models legally obtain training data?
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