Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
ingve · hn · 2026-10-12
A blog post asks why AI companies face no hacking charges for scraping and using protected data and systems without authorization, exploring the legal and enforcement double standard; the HN thread debates whether training-data scraping amounts to unauthorized access.
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