Tech’s data double standard: scrape to train, block everyone else

A two-year investigation by the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) and a separate analysis by The Atlantic point to a systematic double standard: Tech giants train AI on copyrighted works scraped at scale, while their own terms of service prohibit the same practice for their platforms. The article Tech's data double standard: scrape to train, block everyone else appeared first on THE DECODER.

2025-09-11 14:30 GMT · 6 months ago the-decoder.com

A two-year investigation by the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) and a separate analysis by The Atlantic point to a systematic double standard: Tech giants train AI on copyrighted works scraped at scale, while their own terms of service prohibit the same practice for their platforms. The article Tech's data double standard: scrape to train, block everyone else appeared first on THE DECODER.

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