It's simple: AI companies are allowed to scrape whatever they want, but if you scrape an AI companies data then you are a copyright terrorist and you will never see the light of heaven.
This double standard from Amazon particularly predates AI by decades. They scrape their e-commerce competition but don't want anybody to scrape them back.
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Yet the same companies will be first to tell you that scraping their public information is against ToS or even illegal.
See the whole drama about LinkedIn scraping, etc.
It's simple: AI companies are allowed to scrape whatever they want, but if you scrape an AI companies data then you are a copyright terrorist and you will never see the light of heaven.
This double standard from Amazon particularly predates AI by decades. They scrape their e-commerce competition but don't want anybody to scrape them back.
I have clients who have done it. The last one was a service for brands who wanted to see how their products were placed and described on Amazon.