On: Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI

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The authors of the title most likely wanted to suggest a similarity between metas use of the data and scraping.

In some legislations there are rules about scraping. And for many less technical people it sounds scary.

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Au contraire. By calling it wrong you get the clicks and muddle legislation discussions. The Conversation will start with anti scraping, but then every user "gave" metabook the images and accepted privacy terms...

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Maybe they have no idea what’s the difference between “scraping” and “mining”? I mean for non-tech people, these are just buzzwords…