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

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[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] tallwookie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

that's kind of a grey area - digitally copying something that's public domain isnt stealing.

[–] Fylkir 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.