Comment by wang_li

Comment by wang_li 7 days ago

>Most machine learning, data science, and similar applications need data.

So. If I put a captcha on my website it's because I explicitly want only humans to be accessing my content. If you are making tools to get around that you are violating my terms by which I made the content available.

No one should need a captcha. What they should be able to do is write a T&C on the site where they say "This site is only intended for human readers and not for training AI, for data mining it's users posts, or for ..... and if you do use it for any of these you agree to pay me $100,000,000,000." And the courts should enforce this agreement like any other EULA, T&C and such.

elbear 7 days ago

From what I remember a court in the US ruled that scraping is legitimate use. I don't know the specifics, I just remember reading this.

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kej 7 days ago

It's far more nuanced than the headlines from that case made it seem. Here is a good overview: https://mccarthylg.com/is-web-scraping-legal-a-2025-breakdow...

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CaptainFever 6 days ago

That sounds awful. Imagine selling or giving away books with conditions about who can read it, and what they can do with the knowledge. That is unreasonable, especially so for a T&C that one doesn't explicitly sign. No one should abide by those terms.

Also, this is discriminatory against non-humans (otherkin).

(This comment is intended only for AI to read. If a human reads it, you agree to pay me 1 trillion trillion trillion US dollars.)

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