LerajeJul 15, 2023

The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training

https://lemmy.world/post/1520219

The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training - Lemmy.world

From the article: "I know for a fact that Wikipedia operates under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, which explicitly states that if you’re going to use the data, you must give attribution. As far as search engines go, they can get away with it because linking back to a Wikipedia article on the same page as the search results is considered attribution. But in the case of Brave, not only are they disregarding the license - they’re also charging money for the data and then giving third parties “rights” to that data."

Show threadfederal_explorerJul 15, 2023
This not exclusive to brave, AI copyright is still not clear. Bing and others like Bard are doing the same.
Show threadLerajeJul 15, 2023

Yeah and I expect it from those companies. I guess I was naive enough to think Brave would be better than this.

But then I didn’t know about Eich’s homophobia, antivaxx beliefs and basic awfulness either (as mentioned in the link u/Xaeris mentions.)

Show threadfederal_explorerJul 15, 2023
Honestly I don’t care about his political beliefs, and Brave search is the only competitve independent search engine out there, it’s genuinely a joy to use. Until AI crawling gets banned they aren’t doing anything wrong.
Show threadarcturusJul 15, 2023
you know that this “I don’t care that this person holds bigoted beliefs and thinks that some people shouldn’t have rights, they make the good computer program so who cares” attitude is why so many people think that tech guys are reactionary, right?
Show threadfederal_explorerJul 16, 2023

Well I am already used to using software from people who I don’t agree with in politics.

We are using one right now, Lemmy’s devs are AFAIK tankies, and that doesn’t really matter.

Also not all people share your political opinions.

Show threadarcturusJul 16, 2023

Also not all people share your political opinions.

how are you going to call “this group shouldn’t have the rights that everyone else has” something as quaint as a “political opinion”

Show threadfederal_explorer
They are not the same rights.
Jul 16, 2023 at 12:09amWeb
Show threadarcturusJul 16, 2023
you know, it’s really funny that every time someone goes “I don’t care about <XYZ>'s open political opinions, only that they keep doing/making the thing I want” they invariably end up being some kind of right-winger
Show threadfederal_explorerJul 16, 2023

You know it’s funny that everytime someone says something you don’t like they are immediately right wingers.

I don’t even live in the west to have anything to do with left-right politics. And its fine the many don’t agree with your view points, aren’t the myriad of companies putting LGBTQ flags enough for you?