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Legal Versus Ethical: Web Scraping Edition

Webbiquity

However, there are other laws and legislations that guide web scraping, such as breach of contract, illegal access and use of data, trespass to chattels, and copyright infringement. Copyrighted material. Also, it is not possible to copyright ideas, only the representation or specific form of those ideas. Is the data copyrighted?

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Zoom Clarifies Terms Amid AI Privacy Concerns

Valasys

.” This amendment aims to provide clarity and reassure users about the company’s commitment to safeguarding their privacy. Nevertheless, the practice of extracting massive amounts of online data for AI training has sparked concerns about potential inclusion of personal or copyrighted material in the datasets.

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4 Consumer Privacy Tactics To Win Over Mistrustful Customers

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Consumers want and expect the ability to control their personal data, retain the right “to be forgotten,” and actively manage their privacy preferences. What does data privacy mean for small and growing businesses? Dig into data privacy law. Give users more control over their personal data. Here’s what we heard: 1.

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Your LLM Gets Its Data From Where??

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

This can include everything from Reddit forums to social media posts, computer code, product pages, and even personal information. The bad: Scraped data may include copyrighted or trademarked material. The risk of copyright infringement exists with corpus data too, but is more pronounced with scraped data due to its nature.

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What Does AI Transparency Look Like? It Depends on Your Industry

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

This lack of transparency threatens privacy and security, and fosters uncompensated use of copyrighted content, according to Senate testimony by Ramayya Krishnan, dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. And that’s being charitable.

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AI ethics: How marketers should embrace innovation responsibly

Sprout Social

Our community discussed several risks including privacy infringement, manipulation of public opinion and autonomous weapons. In our series Unread, members of Sprout’s marketing and creative team discussed how they currently use AI, from indulging in personalized shopping to using features like ViralPost® to help schedule social posts.

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What could disrupt the future of generative AI?

Martech

In addition to the risks embedded in relying on what is essentially unconscious and amoral “intelligence,” users also face the very real prospects that copyright and privacy issues could mortally wound large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Let’s take those in order. A national Do Not Scrape register?