Reddit's 'ai Scraping' Lawsuit Is an Attack on the Open Internet
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Reddit is facing a lawsuit over its AI scraping practices, which some argue is an attack on the open internet, sparking debate about data ownership and online freedom.
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Are we going to enter an age of "infringement without substantial similarity"?
This seems like trying to suck the air out of the space around a protected expression. Not only you cannot make derivative works, now not even transformative works are going to be allowed?
This will certainly be an interesting case...