TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI - eviltoast
  • Breve@pawb.social
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    9 hours ago

    They’re too late, there’s going to be way too much AI generated garbage in their data and so many social media platforms like Reddit and Twitter have already taken measures to curb scrapers.

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      7 hours ago

      Like those platforms aren’t already full of AI garbage as well. Training new models will require a cut-off date before the genie was let out of the bottle.

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      6 hours ago

      I think that’s the “25-times faster” bit. They seem to be in a hurry to collect as much human-generated data as possible.