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Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web (www.theverge.com)
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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

No. It's only illegal if you republish what you scrape. Absolutely nothing prevents any company from scraping the web and using that information internally.