If someone hands out cookies in the supermarket, are you allowed to grab everything and leave?
It’s interesting to see twists on the old anti-piracy arguments recycled for anti-ai.
That really depends, but the quick answer is that according to our human social contract, we'd just ask "how many can I take?". Until now, the only real tool to limit scrapers has been throttling, but I don't see any reason for there not to be a similar conversational social contract between machines.
I will copy the supermarket and paste it somewhere else.
I'm also going to download a car.
If someone hands out cookies in the supermarket, are you allowed to grab everything and leave?
Depends on the trust level of your society. where the store resides.
The internet is a cesspool of vagrants, thieves, mentally unstable, people and software with no impulse control, pirates and that is just talking about corporations. It gets so much worse with individuals.
This is a dishonest analogy. In your example, there is only a limited amount of cookies available. While there is no practical limit on the amount of time a certain digital media can be viewed.
You are allowed to take one cookie. But you are allowed to view a public website multiple times if you so want.
Odd thing about cookies… they disappear after one serving.
Websites are an endless stream of cookies.
The analogy doesn’t hold.