Scraping to violate peoples' privacy is *very* bad. Take #ClearviewAI, the grifty, sleazy #FacialRecognition company that scraped billions of photos in order to train a system that they sell to cops, corporations and authoritarian governments:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/20/steal-your-face/#hoan-ton-that
Likewise: scraping to alienate creative workers' labor is *very* bad. Creators' bosses are ferociously committed to firing us all and replacing us with "generative AI."
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