TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI
TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI
The crawler, dubbed Bytespider, is scraping the internet at 3,000 times the rate of other genAI tools like Anthropic.
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Every major ai company did this let them do that what is to loose here?
Lose*
My bad english isn't my 1st or 2nd language
Don't worry. It's my first and I still get shit wrong.
No worries. Just edit yer post
People like to act as if archiving has never been a thing until about a year ago at which point it was suddenly invented and is now a threat in some nebulous way.
It's not that it's a threat, it's that there's a difference between archiving for preservation and crawling other people's content for the purpose of making money off it (in a way that does not benefit the content creator).
crawling other people’s content for the purpose of making money off it (in a way that does not benefit the content creator).
You're describing capitalism there, bud
If a foreign Dictatorship's military op wants to know every facet of your life, then you can be damn sure it's a threat.
This isn't archiving.
The difference is there is more control in what is kept in the archive.
We have little to no control over what an LLM regurgitates.
I've been waiting for someone to accidentally surface PIIs from an LLM.