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It depends on what information is being scraped and what is it used for.

Scraping people's personal photos and biometric information for shady agencies, is not the same as scraping e-commerce prices, social media posts, or blog websites.

The intention is important. And respecting people's privacy and copyrights.

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> Scraping people's personal photos and biometric information for shady agencies, is not the same as scraping e-commerce prices, social media posts, or blog websites.

Hard disagree. They both violate people's privacy and copyrights.

I don't believe privacy rights can be violated when the information is available publicly.

Copyrights are a separate issue and one that LLM companies almost certainly violated.

I disagree that those two cases are really all that ethically different, personally. They're both harmful practices. A pox on both their houses.

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