Scraping to train data

"When companies scrape personal information and use it to create generative AI tools, they undermine consumers’ control of their personal information by using the information for a purpose for which the consumer did not consent. The individual may not have even imagined their data could be used in the way the company intends when the person posted it online. Individual storing or hosting of scraped personal data may not always be harmful in a vacuum, but there are many risks. Multiple data sets can be combined in ways that cause harm: information that is not sensitive when spread across different databases can be extremely revealing when collected in a single place, and it can be used to make inferences about a person or population. And because scraping makes a copy of someone’s data as it existed at a specific time, the company also takes away the individual’s ability to alter or remove the information from the public sphere. "