[shsbdncudx]

Presumably “scraped” isnt the right term here. They already have the raw data, they Won’t be “scraping “ it from the website they’ll just be investing it from where they store it

[camkego]

It’s interesting to think about what the right verb is.

I’d probably say Meta trained their models using all self-hosted, public AU citizen’s data.

But it doesn’t really sound as scary as “scraped” to non-technical users.

[themoose8]

It does feel like scraped is being used for it's negative connotations.

Perhaps "consumed" would work just as well and be more accurate.

[halvo]

Used

[Cyclone_]

Agreed, scraping is more appropriate for when one gathers data from a 3rd party site.

[fwn]

The authors of the title most likely wanted to suggest a similarity between metas use of the data and scraping.

In some legislations there are rules about scraping. And for many less technical people it sounds scary.

[1oooqooq]

Au contraire. By calling it wrong you get the clicks and muddle legislation discussions. The Conversation will start with anti scraping, but then every user "gave" metabook the images and accepted privacy terms...

[michaelnny]

Maybe they have no idea what’s the difference between “scraping” and “mining”? I mean for non-tech people, these are just buzzwords…

[bryanrasmussen]

maybe it's mined, as in data-mining.

[royaltjames]

Feels like they are scraping the near-empty jar of mayonnaise.