There is nothing wrong with mining content for data, but it has to be properly regulated and creators must be compensated, says Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts
But my jaw hit the floor last week when I read that Google was pushing to overhaul UK copyright law in a way that would allow it to freely mine other publishers’ content for commercial gain without compensation. You might ask why the lifting of online content for model-training poses a problem – hasn’t Google been crawling all over websites and ingesting their data for search purposes since the dawn of the internet?
