I’d be shocked if they weren’t already harvesting publicly available data “in preparation for” federating. But bluntly, they’re going to be scraping publicly available data. As in, they’d be doing this without Threads if there was advertising money to be made, and it’s publicly available data.
It really annoys me how people react with such shock and alarm at how companies are “stealing” their data, when they put said data up in a public venue explicitly for the purpose of everyone seeing it. And particularly in the case of AI training there isn’t even any need for them to save a copy of that data or redistribute it to anyone once the AI has been trained.
I’d be shocked if they weren’t already harvesting publicly available data “in preparation for” federating. But bluntly, they’re going to be scraping publicly available data. As in, they’d be doing this without Threads if there was advertising money to be made, and it’s publicly available data.
It really annoys me how people react with such shock and alarm at how companies are “stealing” their data, when they put said data up in a public venue explicitly for the purpose of everyone seeing it. And particularly in the case of AI training there isn’t even any need for them to save a copy of that data or redistribute it to anyone once the AI has been trained.
But they’re monetizing their data.
So?
Exactly.