Please, please, please sue Meta for this, OpenAI!! The litigation space around AI development/scraping/agents/robots is already pretty mind-bending and surreal. But it could always get better! 🍿🍿 www.wired.com/story/meta-c...
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This paper about the publicly available data that is missing from Meta's and TikTok's research tools/APIs, by Luka Bekavac and Simon Mayer, is super interesting. And this graphic is a doozy. arxiv.org/html/2601.12...
- An audit from the University of St. Gallen found vetted researchers can pull only about 75% of TikTok and 50% of Instagram posts shown to users.
- Of the posts that come through, only 17% of TikTok and 42% of Instagram metadata parameters reach researchers, with moderation context systematically stripped.
- The paper concludes current research-access implementations fall short of the DSA's intended oversight function because removed and downranked content rarely survives in researcher datasets.
The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. (I’m pretty sure James Boyle made us memorize this in his Intro IP class.)
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