Britain’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is scrutinizing the legality of web scraping to collect data to train generative AI models.
UK privacy watchdog to examine practice of web scraping to get training data for AI
https://therecord.media/uk-ico-examines-privacy-concerns-data-scraping-artificial-intelligence-llms
2 Comments
BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
I'm not sure why it would be any different from how this is treated with search engines. Both scrape massive amounts of openly available data and make it available in some form. Any training data or information that a model could potentially spit out is already available through a search engine's index.
dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info · 5 pts · 2y
The UK has a data protection agency? Does the UK know? Have they been asleep for the past 20 years?