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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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4 Consumer Privacy Tactics To Win Over Mistrustful Customers

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

For example, a Pew Research Center survey of adults in the United States revealed that 81% of us think we have little to no control over companies collecting our data; nearly 60% said we have little to no understanding of how our data is being used, and more than 70% think nearly everything we do online is being tracked by advertisers or vendors.

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Your LLM Gets Its Data From Where??

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Corpus data is often selected and collected systematically, and curated for specific research or analysis, while scraped data uses tools to absorb as much information as possible. The bad: Scraped data may include copyrighted or trademarked material. The main difference between scraped and corpus data is how it’s collected.

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MarTech’s generative AI pledge

Martech

Complying with copyright laws, checking facts, eliminating bias, and, when feasible, crediting sources are just a few of the responsibilities our writers and contributors own. Researching, brainstorming and copy editing are all acceptable use cases for generative AI.

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Market Research Guide

Excelsior Research

Market Research Guide. A step-by-step guide to completing your own market research. Also, companies have realized the importance of market research for the business. A snippet from Statista , Research plays a pivotal role in the product line and audience segmentation. Why Market Research? Types of Market Research.

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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. Meticulously validate AI-derived findings.

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AI ethics: How marketers should embrace innovation responsibly

Sprout Social

And with works like Parable of the Sower, the Machine and I, Robot within the cultural zeitgeist, it’s understandable why sci-fi fans, researchers and technologists alike warn of the dangers of ignoring AI ethics. This can stem from lack of research or biased datasets, among other reasons.