"OpenAI crawled a public website and the country is freaking out?" developer shrugs at scraping backlash
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-24
Developer dannolan pushed back on the ongoing controversy, arguing that OpenAI merely crawled a publicly accessible website and questioning why the public reaction has been so intense. The retweet captures the divide over where AI data-scraping boundaries should lie.
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