More Glitches in the ATS Matrix

[Maxmars]

Not a lawyer.  Can't make assertions about the state of the law except as an opinion (which I'm willing to bet will be 'wrong' in some manner.)

While it is true that entire object of posting on social media is not to keep secrets or make money, it does not translate that posters "have no rights" with regard to what they post.  After all, we simultaneously must accept responsibility for what we post.  Where there are responsibilities, there are rights.

Should "we contributors" actually be left in the uncomfortable position of NOT being allowed to "secure" our own inputs and efforts to create?

I think this will be an important matter, not to be simplistically discarded as "of course you can't have it" it "belongs" to the commercial site as "property."

But by that token, if it is provided freely, anyone should (in theory) have access to it... even if it is to "train" AI.

The issue with "scraping" is how much it impacts the service itself, since it is intensely machine-taxing, rendering users to suffer the impacts on the system itself.

Now "industrial" scraping is another matter.  They are doing it for some manner of "profit" and that makes it germane to commerce law.