This is a good explanation, thank you. I didn’t think about people who literally post stuff to earn money. Since so much talk already revolved around scraping sites like Lemmy, that was all I had in mind.

What you describe sounds like the same problem with services that avoid paywalls or ads of news sites.

In this case I fully aggree that some solution needs to be found.

Thank you. I haven’t thought about copyright just now. This is indeed something that needs to be addressed.

Although I personally still don’t have much of a problem with that. I think copyright laws are highly debatable.

This comparison is lacking because water is unlike data. The data can still be accessed exactly the same. It doesn’t become less and the access to it is not restricted by other people harvesting it.

Could somebody explain why this is bad? I’m not a fan of all this AI stuff. But I can’t think of an argument besides “Big tech is bad and they should not make money if they use public information to do so.”

I’m genuinely curious. There may be massive amounts of data being processed. But only public data, right? If they can use that data for something, isn’t that something positive? Or at the very least nothing negative? I always thought anything that is posted in public spaces means making it available for anyone to use anyway. So what am I missing here?