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by mkl95 1227 days ago
Big Tech companies have been scraping massive amounts of data for about two decades. Many smaller companies have tried to imitate them (remember when Big Data was the hottest thing out there? How do you think most of those startups obtained their data?) but pretty much all of them failed, mainly by running out of cash. OpenAI just happened to win the scraping lottery.