Don't Scrape Me, Bro + The Activists Sabotaging Self-Driving Cars + How Reddit Beat a Rebellion

<p>Users are protesting Zoom’s liberal data-collection policy. Authors are shutting down websites that scrape their work. And, in a concession to users, OpenAI is allowing websites to opt out of web scraping. The era of A.I. backlash has begun.</p><p>Then, street activists are deterring self-driving cars by placing traffic cones on the hoods of vehicles.</p><p>Plus: How Reddit has squashed the Reddit Revolt.</p><p><strong>Today’s Guests:</strong></p><ul><li>Adam Egelman and Mingwei Samuel are organizers with Safe Street Rebel, an activist group trying to get cars off the streets.</li></ul><p><strong>Additional Reading:</strong></p><ul><li>The publication StackDiary <a href="https://stackdiary.com/zoom-terms-now-allow-training-ai-on-user-content-with-no-opt-out/" target="_blank">exposed</a> that Zoom’s updated terms of service permitted the training of artificial-intelligence models on user content.</li><li>Benji Smith took down his website <a href="https://blog.shaxpir.com/taking-down-prosecraft-io-37e189797121" target="_blank">prosecraft.io</a>, a database that contained the works of over 25,000 books, after authors discovered that their works were being used to power the website without their consent.</li></ul>