TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI - eviltoast
TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that's gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI
fortune.com
The crawler, dubbed Bytespider, is scraping the internet at 3,000 times the rate of other genAI tools like Anthropic.
  • TriflingToad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Here’s a video from MattKC who is a good technical YouTuber who’s website got shut down because the TikTok companies webcrawler just kept sending requests and took up bandwidth. Very cool vid and channel, highly recommend! https://youtu.be/Hi5sd3WEh0c