GovTrack.usAug 23, 2023

Following The New York Times, we've banned OpenAI and the like from using GovTrack to train LLMs and other AI systems going forward, per our terms of use (https://www.govtrack.us/legal) and robots.txt file.

We're skeptical that LLM AI systems have any place outside of generating uninspired fiction, we're disappointed that present-day harms aren't taken seriously, and we're concerned about how they launder the work of creators.

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Show threadjonathankoren™Aug 23, 2023

@GovTrack You claim be part of #opengov , and exist only to scrape and repackage public information yourself, and yet you think you can ban scraping for ideological reason centered on unoriginality?

That’s ironic

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@jonathankoren We've worked for two decades to make the data on GovTrack freely available for all to use. And it is. You can get it straight from Congress these days --- thanks to us (and others) for convincing them to do it.

If billionaires want something from us but don't want to do any of the heavy lifting like we have for two decades, they can find another source. Which there is because it's all public info anyway!

Aug 24, 2023 at 6:48pmWeb