• Ekky@sopuli.xyz
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    16 hours ago

    “Scraping is necessary to develop good models. It’s like building a highway – some houses must be demolished, but in the end everyone benefits,” the poster wrote in a thread titled “[AMA] I scraped all of Cara.”

    Except they razed the entire countryside, including the hidden alcoves, to build this “highway” of theirs.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
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      15 hours ago

      Oh fuck that argument to hell and back.

      Plagiarism machines are not a highway.

      • nodiratime@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        Also, highways are and always will be extremely destructive. They kill (predomantly disadvantaged) neighborhoods, they pollute, divide and lead to “deserts”.