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I once consulted a lawyer when a large company contacted me. His response was - they've got a team of lawyers on payroll whose job it is to make you run out of

• 1asf21 10d ago
  It would be unfortunate for xAI, which abused the TOS of OpenAI for distilling via user accounts, to get a ruling that forbids scraping via user accounts. The entire business model of the AI industry, who resell and launder the scraped data, would collapse. Nitter just makes it visible to a human and has anti-scraper measures necessitated by the thieves like xAI. Additionally, a GoFundMe would reach astronomical proportions given how unpopular Musk is.
  • kova12 10d ago
    Latter is probably a factor, because merely being right doesn't mean you won't run out of money while defending yourself from lawyers
    • terribleperson 10d ago
      While true, parent comment's first point (that the plaintiff would be unwilling to make the winning argument) would have an impact on their ability to spend the defendent to death. Judges do notice when you don't have an actual argument.
• psolidgold 10d ago
  Serious comment: I wonder how this dynamic will change when AI has some real legal chops. One could spin up agents that could sift through all the BS discovery docs and correspondence they send to waste time and money. The agents could presumably even file the necessary paperwork on your behalf. Obviously not a lawyer, just food for thought.
  • alansaber 10d ago
    AI is good at volume, bad at accuracy and nuance. Of all the tasks to go through with a fine-toothed comb (ie, manually) legal is one.
    • bix6 10d ago
      And yet all the lawyers are dripping in AI. I got a near final doc from one the other day with a bunch of perplexity bullshit in it. How is this real life…
      • alansaber 10d ago
        Just as many junior devs are serving slop PRs. Unfortunately, you can only take a horse to water.
    • misstuned 10d ago
      Genuine question - isn't legal stuff one of the things AI should in theory be very good at? Legalese is like code, in that every word is very strictly defined and there to do a specific job in the text. I feel like that's one of the things AI would be good at writing and interpreting.
      • alansaber 10d ago
        It's far from trivial to set up anything more formalised than a loose taxonomy. People have been trying for a few decades now. AI will help automate this formalisation with graphs etc but it's not good enough yet for you to give a judge 13m LOC of mathlic proving your client isn't guilty.
  • LatticeAnimal 10d ago
    Unserious comment: The big company will spin up swarms of agents whose job is to overwhelm your AI agents with legal requests / correspondence, still with the goal of making you run out of money (but now via AI spend).
• worldsavior 10d ago
  It seems like youtube-dl/yt-dlp survived. t
  • sourcecodeplz 10d ago
    different things: this is an online service, not downloadable software.
• warrantisall 10d ago
  Not going to work in EU.
• embedding-shape 10d ago
  Do we know where the main author(s) of Nitter is based? Jurisdiction matters a whole lot.