As the tech platform prepares for a public offering, it says that most of its revenue is from advertising, but touts artificial intelligence as a growth area.
Everything is scraped for training data. They argue that this is fair use under the “research” exemption. However, it is not research, the datasets they build are private and used exclusively for commercial product development.
Even if you could consider it as fair use research - which it isn’t - the commerciality of it should exclude it from being fair use.
Lemmy is also being scraped for training and data collection I bet.
Everything is scraped for training data. They argue that this is fair use under the “research” exemption. However, it is not research, the datasets they build are private and used exclusively for commercial product development.
Even if you could consider it as fair use research - which it isn’t - the commerciality of it should exclude it from being fair use.