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UK privacy watchdog to examine practice of web scraping to get training data for AI (therecord.media)

submitted 10 months ago by nohaypolenta@scribe.disroot.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Britain’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is scrutinizing the legality of web scraping to collect data to train generative AI models.

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[–] BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm not sure why it would be any different from how this is treated with search engines. Both scrape massive amounts of openly available data and make it available in some form. Any training data or information that a model could potentially spit out is already available through a search engine's index.

[–] dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 5 points 10 months ago

The UK has a data protection agency? Does the UK know? Have they been asleep for the past 20 years?