How is this different from Microsoft scraping to build Bing?
Honest question. There is a line in the sand somewhere apparently.
How is this different from Microsoft scraping to build Bing?
Honest question. There is a line in the sand somewhere apparently.
Under “conduct requirements” imposed by the CMA in June, UK websites are able to activate an opt-out to stop Google from scraping their content to power search features such as AI overviews - very similar conceptually to the news law passed in Australia.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56163550
Bing sent traffic to the original source. AI answers don't. That's the line. It's not complicated.
Linking to work, where ownership and attribution is clear and the owner has the ability to commercialise is a very different thing to “laundering” content through the model, quoting the midjourney developers here
> "We just need to launder it through a fine-tuned codex." [0]
[0] https://cybernews.com/news/midjourney-ai-images-art-lawsuit-...
Huge difference between building AI and a search index.
Why? In both cases the SaaS downloaded the whole web and derives 100% of revenue from content they didn't make.
Yes but the product is different. One is a shovel for you to dig, another one is an artificial intelligence that competes with or replaces the digger.
Bing isn’t re-selling you back the content it took.
They absolutely are; you pay by viewing the ads.