Don't Scrape Me, Bro + The Activists Sabotaging Self-Driving Cars + How Reddit Beat a Rebellion
Update: 2023-08-11
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Users are protesting Zoom’s liberal data-collection policy. Authors are shutting down websites that scrape their work. And, in a concession to users, OpenAI is allowing websites to opt out of web scraping. The era of A.I. backlash has begun.
Then, street activists are deterring self-driving cars by placing traffic cones on the hoods of vehicles.
Plus: How Reddit has squashed the Reddit Revolt.
Today’s Guests:
- Adam Egelman and Mingwei Samuel are organizers with Safe Street Rebel, an activist group trying to get cars off the streets.
Additional Reading:
- The publication StackDiary exposed that Zoom’s updated terms of service permitted the training of artificial-intelligence models on user content.
- Benji Smith took down his website prosecraft.io, a database that contained the works of over 25,000 books, after authors discovered that their works were being used to power the website without their consent.
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The activists sounded ignorant, misinformed, and unintelligent. E.g., they started by expressing their ignorance of how governmental systems work. The DMV is part of the executive branch; they're accountable to the governor and they're limited to the execution of laws. Which laws are the driverless-vehicle companies violating? If there isn't a law, work to pass one, but don't blame people in the executive branch for following the laws. Idiots.