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I saw a post the other day about how people crowd sourced scraping grocery store prices. Using that data they could present a good case for price fixing and collusion. Web scraping is already pretty taboo and this AI fear mongering will be the thing that is used to make it illegal.
It won't be illegal because there is repeated court precedent for it to be categorically legal.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/
so chatgpt can scrap data?
Yes.
It's not unlike recording someone in public. Anything publicly available on the internet is legal for you to access and download. There is no expectation of that datas privacy.