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The thing is, it's not really controversial among copyright experts to say that these activities are fair use. Scraping isn't stealing - not legally and not ethically. Scraping is good, actually:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/

Which is not to say that artists don't have a legit - and serious - beef with AI companies. Their pitch is: "train our products on your workers' skilled output, fire your workers, replace them with our products."

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