Trump, brexit, Hungary, Poland, (almost) France, Turkey all happened before 2020.

If anything it seems people look more outraged from this

I still find astonishing that tech crunch buys the argument of ML model training.

No one in their sane mind would use the API (that have always been rate limited) for fetch data for text generation. People would use HTTP or, even better, archives of reddit.

Why? Because there is better or no rate limit, there is no need to write anything (only reading) and it will stay free 🙂 Also super fresh data is not dramatically useful (except in very specific corner cases when something in the news change the way we talk)

https://www.erowid.org/ with plenty of resources for harm reduction. In case you or a loved one is a drug user, at least you can help them (or yourself) to not hurt them too much