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wj 6 hours ago

How is this different from Microsoft scraping to build Bing?

Honest question. There is a line in the sand somewhere apparently.

piltdownman 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

sethops1 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Bing sent traffic to the original source. AI answers don't. That's the line. It's not complicated.

haxiomic 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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-...

oreoftw 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Huge difference between building AI and a search index.

sneak 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Why? In both cases the SaaS downloaded the whole web and derives 100% of revenue from content they didn't make.

oreoftw 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

gnz11 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Bing isn’t re-selling you back the content it took.

sneak 4 hours ago | parent [-]

They absolutely are; you pay by viewing the ads.